Discord DAVE Protocol Whitepaper

Every Voice and Video Call on Discord Is Now End-to-End Encrypted

As of March 2026, E2EE is now enforced for every voice and video call on Discord. This represents a multi-year commitment, and Discord’s VP of Engineering is here to talk about why it matters.

Investigation into Message Layer Security (MLS)

This article investigates Message Layer Security (MLS), the IETF standard protocol (RFC 9420) for Signal-style end-to-end encryption. Through a practical analysis of OpenMLS (the Rust reference implementation) and a demonstration CLI chat application (mls-chat), the post reveals the substantial gap between protocol specification and production deployment. Introduction MLS (Message Layer …

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

Off Protocol - AT Protocol

A podcast about the AT Protocol and the open social web.

Cosmik New Year: 2025 in Review, and Looking Forward to 2026 - Cosmik Labs

Reading this forum post on open protocols and music publishing. Thank you @hilk.eu for sembling it.

Is End-to-End Encryption Optional For Large Groups? - Dhole Moments

One of the recent topics in Messaging App Discourse is whether it makes sense to prioritize End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) when searching for an alternative to Discord. Who’s Saying “No&#…

Confessions to a data lake

I’ve been building Confer: end-to-end encryption for AI chats. With Confer, your conversations are encrypted so that nobody else can see them. Confer can’t read them, train on them, or hand them over – because only you have access to them.

Integrating Germ with AT Protocol — Germ Network

End-to-end encrypted Germ DM is now a Bluesky messenger. In this technical post, we introduce the architecture of Germ’s integration with AT Protocol. From the beginning, Germ has been building for an interoperable E2EE ecosystem, and this extends to our integration with AT Protocol. We’ll define th

On open-science research labs on discord, and getting more people.

Note that the audio doesn't follow the post verbatim;it's still essentially the same content though. (audio version below) …

Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

ayn2op/discordo

A lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord terminal (TUI) client.

Platforms, Power, Paywalls, and Podcasts

This edition of the newsletter is a bit of a catch-up on links since we have been busy with outreach to potential speakers, participants, and sponsors for the second in-person Protocols for Publishers ✨ event in Europe. The next PfP event looks to be in London, UK and we