Paragon Initiative Enterprises Blog

The latest information from the team that develops cryptographically secure PHP software.

Release: sodium_compat v2 and the Future of Our Polyfill Libraries

Your PHP 5 code won't break, but your PHP 8.1+ code will be faster and cleaner


Introducing PASERK, the First PASETO Extension, for Key Wrapping and Serialization

PASERK adds public-key encryption, key-wrapping, key serialization, and unique key identification to PASETO.


PASETO is an Even More Secure Alternative to the JOSE Standards (JWT, etc.)

Announcing new versions of the PASETO protocol, which offer better arguments for security in a wider range of use cases.


Improving the Cryptography of the JavaScript Ecosystem

We'll be doing for JavaScript (Node.js) what we've been doing for PHP for several years now.


WordPress 5.2: Mitigating Supply-Chain Attacks Against 33% of the Internet

We wrote a cryptography library entirely in PHP to make your WordPress site secure against supply-chain attacks.


CipherSweet: Searchable Encryption Doesn't Have to be Bitter

CipherSweet is a PHP library that provides searchable encryption for the most common cases a web developer is likely to encounter.


Paseto is a Secure Alternative to the JOSE Standards (JWT, etc.)

Paseto (Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens) is everything JWT should be, but isn't (namely, secure)


Certainty: Automated CACert.pem Management for PHP Software

Our new open source library, which keeps your Certificate Authority certificate bundle up-to-date.


Go PHP 7 - Our Commitment to Maintaining our Open Source Projects

This is our promise to the community to support PHP 5 projects until EOL, and then no later.


Coming to WordPress 4.4: CSPRNG

In version 4.4 and on, WordPress's random number generator function (wp_rand) will now be cryptographically secure.


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