The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known by its original name Rijndael, is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.
the strongest encryption is just noise
Modern encryption standards really aren’t too bad to understand!
Cryptomator - Free & Open-Source Cloud Storage Encryption
Cryptomator is an open-source encryption tool for secure cloud storage. Protect your privacy for free on Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and more.
Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'. | Tuta
The coalition contract of the newly elected German government contains right to encryption.
Architecture
Overview of Ente's end-to-end encrypted architecture—learn how your data is encrypted on-device, securely shared, and safely stored using cryptography.
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 …
Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB
DuckDB v1.4 ships database encryption capabilities. In this blog post, we dive into the implementation details of the encryption, show how to use it and demonstrate its performance implications.
HEIR: Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation
HEIR is a compiler toolchain for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). We aim to be the industry-standard compiler for FHE. Application developers, compiler engineers, hardware designers, and cryptography researchers can build upon HEIR to accelerate the research and development of production-strength privacy-first software systems.
ELFA: Encrypted Local-First Architecture
The European Commission is funding the ELFA consortium to build a local-first, end-to-end encrypted workspace suite. Core tools include documents, spreadsheets, email, calendar, chat, and video calls.
Encryption + Trust & Safety reading list (updated 2026-05-20)
A Spectrum of Consent
Blockchain & Decentralized Identity Architect — Internet Cryptography Pioneer — Co-author TLS Security Standard — Collaborative Tools & Patterns
standards.group
standards.group — a forge for specs. Write, version, and publish specifications from your own AT Protocol account.
OKCupid Co-Founder Max Krohn Believes People Are Ready to Love Encryption
Encryption has always been good, the problem is that it’s never been easy.
Web-based cryptography is always snake oil
Nowadays, there is an epidemic of web applications purporting to offer “end-to-end” encryption. Examples might range from a file upload service, which allows you to upload and share files of arbitrary size and promises “end-to-end encryption”; or a web-based password safe service which claims that it can't see your passwords because they're encrypted; or a web-based cryptocurrency wallet.
Internxt — Best Encrypted cloud storage & more
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