Paragon Initiative Enterprises Blog

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

Promoting Misuse-Resistance in PASETO Libraries

How we plan to discourage insecure implementations of PASETO.


Against Cipher Agility in Cryptography Protocols

Why versioned protocols are superior to "cipher agility"-based cryptographic designs.


Demystifying Server-Side HTTP Requests for WordPress Developers

Your webserver can initiate HTTP requests too, and securing those matters a lot.


Security Concerns Surrounding WebAuthn: Don't Implement ECDAA (Yet)

If you're planning on implementing the W3C and FIDO Alliance's new WebAuthn standard for hardware security token support, skip ECDAA for now.


The Quick Guide to Simple and Secure Automatic Updates

How to build your own automatic update system that is verifiably secure.


Building Searchable Encrypted Databases with PHP and SQL

How to implement field-level data encryption while still allowing fast queries.


No Way, JOSE! Javascript Object Signing and Encryption is a Bad Standard That Everyone Should Avoid

JWT, JWE, JWS, etc. are terrible designs and need to be scrapped, not resuscitated.


Split Tokens: Token-Based Authentication Protocols without Side-Channels

A Brief Introduction to our Split Token Approach


Cryptographically Secure PHP Development

Your field guide to building secure cryptography features in PHP


Everything You Know About Public-Key Encryption in PHP is Wrong

The perils and pitfalls involved with implementing public-key encryption in a PHP project, and how to do it right.


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