Signal Alumni Launch 'Encrypted Spaces' to Bring End-to-End Encryption to Collaborative Apps
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Andy Greenberg
22d ago· 10 min readenNews
Summary
A group of cryptographers, including Signal alums, have launched an open-source project called "Encrypted Spaces" designed to bring end-to-end encryption to complex, multi-user collaborative platforms like Slack, Discord, and Google Docs. The project aims to solve the technical challenge of applying encryption beyond simple two-party conversations to group collaboration environments, offering protection against surveillance while maintaining the rich feature sets users expect from modern collaboration tools.
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· 3 pulledEnd-to-end encryption, in which data is encoded so that only users on either 'end' of a conversation can decrypt their communications—and not the server that relays that information or any other interloper—has become the standard for modern privacy on the internet.
The metaphor, and often the encryption technology that has enabled that model, doesn't fit neatly onto the world of Slack, Discord, Google Docs, and the other multiuser, complex, collaborative software where people now live and work.
The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.
The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.
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