First, we'd like to thank everyone in the community who donated to the cause and made this happen. Our crucial work does not happen without donations from people who care about our cause. If security and privacy on the web matter to you, there's a huge number of ways to…
As always, remember that our work only happens with the support of our sponsors and the community. Consider donating to the cause and getting the companies that you work at and patronize to get involved. We are always short on funding and more money always means more research. Special thank…
After months of fundraising, we have reached our goal to fund the Unbound DNS audit! We would like to thank the primary supporters of this security review, Private Internet Access and Let's Encrypt. Unbound DNS is DNS server software that offers both DNSSEC and DNS-over-TLS (aka DoT) functionality. It is…
We would like to thank our sponsors Private Internet Access and DuckDuckGo for helping to fund this security review, as well as all of our donors and individual supporters. This crucial work doesn’t happen without support from the community. The quick and dirty: OpenSSL version 1.1.1 was evaluated with special foci on new TLS…
OSTIF is Partnering with the Internet Bug Bounty and HackerOne for Bug Bounties! The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund will be partnering with the Internet Bug Bounty and HackerOne in a partnership that will get our supported projects listed on HackerOne with no overhead costs! HackerOne is the de-facto site…
It has been a while since we have done a round of updates on what we are working on. We have a number of projects that are currently active and more starting up. Throughout 2019 we expect to finish more than twice as many total projects and to continue with…
Bulletproofs are a specific type of range proof based on new cryptography by Benedikt Bunz et al. Bulletproofs are a trustless proofs setup that are substantially smaller than the current Borromean style range proofs that were previously used, which reduces the size of Monero transactions by 80-90%. Monero’s latest network update,…