Bitcoin Core maintainer Gloria Zhao has revoked her signing PGP key and stepped down, ending a six-year run of mempool-focused work that reshaped transaction policy. Gloria Zhao has revoked her ...

For years, we've been told that encryption is the gold standard for digital privacy. If data is encrypted, it is supposed to be locked away from hackers, companies and governments alike. That ...

As part of daily operations, small businesses may need to collect or exchange sensitive data that should be protected. It could be a financial transaction, a mailing address or some other personally ...

Microsoft was asked last year to give the FBI access to the encryption keys used by BitLocker to protect data on three laptops. The company complied and warned that it receives around 20 similar ...

Microsoft confirmed it can hand over BitLocker recovery keys stored in the cloud under warrant, reviving debate over who controls encrypted data. Image: Simon Ray/Unsplash Microsoft is under scrutiny ...

Senator Ron Wyden condemned the practice of companies secretly providing the government with user encryption keys, labeling it as “irresponsible.” The core of the criticism is that a system marketed ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it provided BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI in response to a valid legal order, giving investigators the ability to decrypt hard drives that would otherwise have been ...

Earlier this year, the FBI served Microsoft with a search warrant requesting recovery keys for encrypted data stored on three laptops. Microsoft complied. Marking the first known instance in which the ...

TheCharlatan joins Bitcoin Core as the sixth trusted key holder, the first addition since the May 2023 expansion. At least 20 Bitcoin Core contributors supported the promotion with zero objections ...

A new trusted key holder joins Bitcoin Core, reflecting the continued decentralization of Commit authority. Bitcoin Core developers have approved a rare change to the project’s trusted maintainer ...