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We are delighted to announce that SkypLabs has joined The Global Encryption Coalition!

The best way to present The Global Encryption Coalition is to cite its founding statement:

Encryption is a critical technology that helps keep people, their information, and communications private and secure. However, some governments and organisations are pushing to weaken encryption, which would create a dangerous precedent that compromises the security of billions of people around the world. Actions in one country that undermine encryption threaten us all.

As a global coalition, we call on governments and the private sector to reject efforts to undermine encryption and pursue policies that enhance, strengthen and promote use of strong encryption to protect people everywhere. We also support and encourage the efforts of companies to protect their customers by deploying strong encryption on their services and on their platforms.

IBAN Secured Transfer is a web application developed by the Paris Notary Chamber “to proscribe IBAN transfers using emails, in order to protect notaries and their clients from email spoofing, interception of emails, or other cyberattacks”.

When a notary office needs to communicate its IBAN to one of its clients, the office uploads its IBAN to the IBAN Secured Transfer platform and enters the client’s e-mail address and phone number. A notification e-mail comprising a single-use link is then sent to the client. Upon clicking the link, the client is directed to a page where they are prompted to enter a one-time password sent by SMS this time as per the double authentication process. If all steps are completed correctly, the client can then download the bank account details as a PDF file.

The European Union must keep funding free software

Initially published by petites singularités. English translation provided by OW2.

If you want to sign this letter, please publish this text on your website and add yourself or your organisation to the table you will find on the original site.

While involved in the design and implementation of a back-end infrastructure for one of our clients, we had the occasion to work with Appwrite, an open-source solution that aims to provide an all-in-one back-end platform for web and mobile applications. Targeting mostly front-end developers, Appwrite positions itself as a Firebase alternative.

The scope of the features provided by Appwrite is rather large: user management, authentication, authorisation, database, object storage, etc. To administrate the platform, a web console is provided as well as a CLI tool.

The Google Authenticator mobile application has been around for more than a decade, allowing to generate Time-based One Time Passwords (TOTP) locally on platforms such as Android and iOS. A few days ago, an update was released adding a couple of new features, including the possibility to synchronise your TOTP secrets with Google.