This rule refers to the fact that if you do NOT have your crypto wallet keys, YOU do not actually have control of your cryptocurrency and/or wallet assets - whomever has your keys owns everything. Sylo also follows the number one rule of cryptocurrency: Ed25519 digital signatures prove authorship over any content a user sends. The Ed25519 public-key pair scheme is used for all other general messaging signing - anything other than chat that is sent by a user’s device. WebRTC has security as a major focus, encrypting all data (voice and video) that goes through it, while also forces Sylo to encrypt signalling messages that connect contacts when they want to call. We use the WebRTC (“Web Real-Time Communication”) open-source library for real-time voice and video communication. Having forward secrecy and end-to-end-encryption means only your contact can ever see what you send. “The protocol provides confidentiality, integrity, authentication, participant consistency, destination validation, forward secrecy, post-compromise security (aka future secrecy), causality preservation, message unlinkability, message repudiation, participation repudiation, and asynchronicity.” - Wikipedia on Signal Protocolįile transfers in the Sylo Smart Wallet also use the Signal Protocol. The Signal Protocol is an open-source cryptographic protocol with end-to-end encryption. The Sylo Smart Wallet uses the Signal Protocol for chat messages. Creating your own cryptography is probably a bad idea (if not very suspicious and unusual) when provably secure, audited, open-source options already exist.

The suggestion goes that new cryptography research projects are usually results of new requirements and built on learnings from a multitude of failures and fixes. This rule implies that instead of writing your own cryptography protocols, developers should “use published, public, algorithms and protocols.”Ĭryptography is a very complex discipline and extremely important to implement correctly one small error could open up a back door to exposing important secrets. Sylo follows the first rule of cryptography: Sylo encryption overviewĪll messages, voice calls, video calls, and file transfers on the Sylo Platform are end-to-end encrypted, which means only you and your intended recipients can see the content of what is sent. Therefore please consider this article as another stepping stone on our path to open source. Michael Hayden, retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency, once said: “We kill people based on meta-data.” It might not be a life or death matter to you or your family, but the lives of journalists, activists, refugees, and more depend on encryption doing what developers claim it does. It is important to be able to “trust, but verify” the security of the communication tools you use.

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