Nine months after revealing plans to develop a decentralized and encrypted chat application, BitTorrent opened public testing for Windows, Mac and Android versions of the program. Called Bleep, the ...

How private are your messages? It’s a serious question. Even though many of the most popular messaging apps are now end-to-end encrypted, recent events have shown that there may still be risk involved ...

Back in the day, IIRC, Crashplan offered free "peer" backup; you exchange USB hard drives with a buddy, Crashplan backed up to the remote USB drive over the Internet, with encryption. This meant very ...

Start-up Seclarity last week unveiled a security-based network interface card called SiNic that customers can use for peer-to-peer encryption and firewall protection for desktops and servers. Start-up ...

Tether, which claims to be one the largest companies in the digital asset industry, announced the launch of PearPass, which is described as a peer-to-peer password manager that keeps credentials ...

European governments are increasingly turning towards open standards alternatives to end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaboration services dominated by WhatsApp and Microsoft Teams. An open ...