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Cwtch

Metadata resistant group communication for building privacy preserving applications

Infrastructure

Open sourcing our non-profit infrastructure

OP:Sec

Closing the loop, working with marginalized communities to identify and fix privacy gaps.

Shatter Secrets

Threshold cryptography to prevent compelled disclosure during border crossings

Decentralize Control

Technology should prioritize consent and anti-surveillance. No one party should be able to exert power over the whole system.

Most current systems are centralized, and control over all actions is in the hands of a single organization. We are building a new generation of decentralized and consensual systems, where you control your interactions with others, with no third party mediating or interfering.

Design for the Margins

It is vital to understand the risks faced by underrepresented, persecuted, or victimized communities. Only through that understanding can we build systems that empower, rather than oppress.

Many systems are designed and deployed by those with privilege and, intentionally or not, mostly for people like themselves. We are conducting research and outreach to understand the needs of marginalized communities, to adapt and create tools that are better suited to their needs and to keep them safe and empowered.

Privacy through Transparency

The only way to build a robust system is to open it up to the world. Processes and protocols should be well documented and free for anyone to inspect and comment on.

We produce open and freely accessible research. We build free and open source software. We are an open organization with open governance.

The Latest

Cwtch Alpha 0.2.0

19 Aug 2019

Today we are proud to announce and release Cwtch Alpha 0.2.0 and kick off the 0.2 alpha release cycle! Some big improvements have landed since 0.1.5 both on the frontend and the backend side of things and we’ve very excited about this release! We’ll go over the changes and then talk about some of what is planned for the 0.2 cycle.

Speak Math To Power: Get Your Limited Edition Commemorative T-shirt

06 Aug 2019

In March this year Sarah Jamie Lewis of the Open Privacy Research Society, along with Vanessa Teague (University of Melbourne), and Olivier Pereira (UCLouvain) published details of critical vulnerabilities impacting evoting systems in Switzerland and Australia. These vulnerabilities were soon confirmed by the vendor Scytl, resulting in an emergency patch being installed during an election in New South Wales, and a “temporary” suspension of evoting offerings by Swiss Post.

In June the Swiss Federal Council, citing these disclosures, delayed the introduction and evoting as an official option, and shortly after SwissPost announced that it would not be offering its system for use in the October federal elections (despite having offered it in previous elections).

Just as math can protect the speech of the marginalized from the powerful, it can also be used to prove to everyone that power is not working as it claims.

Speaking math to power works.

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The Open Privacy Research Society is a non-profit society based in Vancouver, Canada. We research, build and deploy technology that serves marginalized communities.

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