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Announcing Wildland Client v0.1

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2021/06/11/introducing-client-v0.1.html

Published: June 11, 2021 00:00

On behalf of the whole team, I’m proud to announce the first public release of Wildland client! This is a reference implementation of the Wildland protocol, which we have described in our “Why, What and How” (aka W2H) paper. Leaving aside all the usual…

The Next Chapter: From the Endpoint to the Cloud

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2018/10/25/the-next-chapter.html

Published: October 25, 2018 00:00

Earlier this year, I decided to take a sabbatical. I wanted to reflect on my infosec work and decide what I would like to focus on in the coming years. As you probably know, I’ve spent the last nine years mostly fighting the battle to secure the endpoint,…

Introducing graphene-ng: running arbitrary payloads in SGX enclaves

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2018/06/11/graphene-ng.html

Published: June 11, 2018 00:00

A few months ago, during my keynote at Black Hat Europe, I was discussing how we should be limiting the amount of trust when building computer systems. Recently, a new technology from Intel has been gaining popularity among both developers and researchers,…

Qubes Air: Generalizing the Qubes Architecture

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2018/01/22/qubes-air.html

Published: January 22, 2018 00:00

The Qubes OS project has been around for nearly 8 years now, since its original announcement back in April 2010 (and the actual origin date can be traced back to November 11th, 2009, when an initial email introducing this project was sent within ITL…

Introducing the Next Generation Qubes Core Stack

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2017/10/03/core3.html

Published: October 3, 2017 00:00

This is the 2nd post from the “cool things coming in Qubes 4.0” series, and it discusses the next generation Qubes Core Stack version 3, which is the heart of the new Qubes 4.x releases. The previous part discussed the Admin API which we also introduced in…

Qubes OS 4.0-rc1 has been released!

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2017/07/31/qubes-40-rc1.html

Published: July 31, 2017 00:00

Finally, after years of work, we’re releasing the first release candidate for Qubes 4.0! Next Generation Qubes Core Stack for better integration No doubt this release marks a major milestone in Qubes OS development. The single most import undertaking…

Introducing the Qubes Admin API

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2017/06/27/qubes-admin-api.html

Published: June 27, 2017 00:00

This post starts the “cool things coming in Qubes 4.0” series and focuses on what we call the “Qubes Admin API.” This should not be confused with Qubes Salt Stack integration, which we have already introduced in Qubes 3.2. High-level overview Let’s start…

Compromise recovery on Qubes OS: individual VMs & full system cases

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2017/04/26/qubes-compromise-recovery.html

Published: April 26, 2017 00:00

Occasionally fuckups happen, even with Qubes (although not as often as some think). What should we – users or admins – do in such a situation? Patch, obviously. But is that really enough? What good is patching your system if it might have already been…

Qubes OS 3.2 has been released

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2016/09/29/qubes-32.html

Published: September 29, 2016 00:00

I’m happy to announce that today we’re releasing Qubes OS 3.2! This is an incremental improvement over the 3.1 version that we released earlier this year. A lot of work went into making this release more polished, more stable and easier to use than our…

Thoughts on the "physically secure" ORWL computer

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2016/09/03/thoughts-about-orwl.html

Published: September 3, 2016 00:00

Several people, including some computer journalists, have asked me recently for an opinion on ORWL - “The First Open Source, Physically Secure Computer”. Below I provide a quick review of some of the features they boast about on their crowdfunding page…