Paragon Initiative Enterprises Blog

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

Recap: Our Contributions to a More Secure Internet

A short summary of the work we've done to make the Internet more secure for everyone.


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.


The 2018 Guide to Building Secure PHP Software

Everything a developer needs to know to build secure software in the PHP programming language in the year 2018


The Quick Guide to Simple and Secure Automatic Updates

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


Chronicle Will Make You Question the Need for Blockchain Technology

With Chronicle, you probably don't need a blockchain to solve your problems anymore.


Hardening Your PHP-Powered APIs with Sapient

How to use Sapient, our new Secure API Toolkit, to Harden your PHP 7 software.


Libsodium Quick Reference: Similarly-Named Functions and Their Use-Cases

A quick comparison of libsodium functions with similar names/purposes, and which one to use for a specific use case


How We Engineered CMS Airship to be Simply Secure

A deep dive into the security engineering decisions that went into CMS Airship. A lot of the decisions we made are subtle.


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Our Security Newsletters

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The first mails quarterly and often showcases our behind-the-scenes projects.

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