Last week, our security expert introduced [Certainty, our CA-Cert automation library](https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/10/certainty-automated-cacert-pem-management-for-php-software), which we designed to make *disabled certificate validation* an extinct vulnerability in the PHP ecosystem. Most of [our open source software projects](https://paragonie.com/projects) have historically fallen into the **local developer tools** genre. * [EasyDB](https://github.com/paragonie/easydb) wraps PDO and makes it more user-friendly and secure-by-default. * [random_compat](https://github.com/paragonie/random_compat) is a pure-PHP polyfill of the PHP 7 CSPRNG functions, allowing PHP 5-compatible open source projects to develop against the new `random_bytes()` / `random_int()` API without usability breaks. * [sodium_compat](https://github.com/paragonie/sodium_compat) is a pure-PHP polyfill of (most of) ext/sodium, allowing open source projects that support versions of PHP older than 7.2 to use the new libsodium features without usability breaks. However, there has been an increasing need for security-oriented, self-hostable microservices. With that in mind, we'd like to introduce you to [PIE-Hosted.com](https://pie-hosted.com). ## PIE-Hosted.com: Open Source Security-Oriented Microservices Everything we host on PIE-Hosted.com, including [the website itself](https://github.com/paragonie/pie-hosted.com), will be released to the public as open source software. Our guiding principle is that everything we provide on this namespace should be easy for most developers to self-host. Some examples of projects we intend to host in the immediate future include: * [Chronicle](https://github.com/paragonie/chronicle) instances * The [Chronicle instance for the PHP community](https://php-chronicle.pie-hosted.com) is live * Several other Chronicle instances are planned, but not yet spun up * Client registration is not yet implemented in pie-hosted.com; until then, please contact [our security team](https://paragonie.com/contact) with your Public Key and what PHP project you represent we will respond with a Client ID as soon as we can * [Discretion](https://github.com/paragonie/discretion) instances * Discretion is a microservice for GPG-encrypted "Contact Us" forms * Currently under development As we become aware of more security pain-points that we can develop usable and robust solutions for, we will be adding to this suite of hosted microservices. ### Thank You for Working With Us None of our work to improve the security of the PHP ecosystem would be possible if it weren't for our clients for choosing to hire us to consult on security and application development matters since our company was founded in early 2015. We hope to continue to provide value to everyone who produces or consumes PHP software.