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


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.


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.


Certainty: Automated CACert.pem Management for PHP Software

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


Hardening Your PHP-Powered APIs with Sapient

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


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.


CMS Airship: Now and Tomorrow

The secure-by-default open source CMS is about to split.


Guide to Automatic Security Updates For PHP Developers

Greatly improve the security of your software by making it automatically apply the latest security updates.


On the (in)security of popular open source Content Management Systems written in PHP

An analysis of the deficits in the security features offered by WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla.


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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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