Paragon Initiative Enterprises Blog

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

Certainty: Automated CACert.pem Management for PHP Software

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


The Quick Guide to Simple and Secure Automatic Updates

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


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.


Cryptographically Secure PHP Development

Your field guide to building secure cryptography features in PHP


Let's Make 2017 the Year of Simply Secure PHP Cryptography

Our plan to make libsodium a core PHP extension and write a userland polyfill for PHP 5.2.4+


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.


Do-It-Yourself Hand-Crafted, Boutique, Artisinal Cryptosystems

How to quickly and effectively design a secure, custom cryptography protocol for your applications.


Guide to Automatic Security Updates For PHP Developers

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


Solve All Your Cryptography Problems in 3 Easy Steps

A layman's introduction to using Halite, our libsodium wrapper


Keyggdrasil, Continuum, and the Cryptography Powering CMS Airship

A deep dive into the cryptography protocols that will secure your blog, should you choose to deploy CMS Airship.


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We specialize in cryptography and secure PHP development.

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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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