SecureDrop is evolving: We want to hear from you
Help us design the next generation of SecureDrop! We are inviting our users to participate in remote interviews. Read More
Join Us for Aaron Swartz Day 2022
Want to help us improve SecureDrop? Join us November 12-13 at the Aaron Swartz Day and Hackathon, in person in San Francisco, or remotely! The SecureDrop team will be be ready to support new and returning contributors. Read More
[Advisory] Bug in codename filtering feature with handling Unicode characters
SecureDrop 2.3.0 introduced a new preference to prevent initial submissions that consist only of a source’s seven word codename. Due to an implementation error, when this feature is active, initial messages containing Unicode characters will result in a server error.We will issue a bugfix release later this month.This preference is … Read More
The SecureDrop Client is ready for translation
We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting community translations for the SecureDrop Client, the graphical application at the heart of the (beta) SecureDrop Workstation, through which journalists can more conveniently and efficiently communicate with sources and securely view their submissions. Read More
Why we are rotating the SecureDrop release key
SecureDrop releases are digitally signed using a release key. This allows anyone to verify the integrity of a SecureDrop release, to mitigate the risk of tampering by third parties. After nearly 5 years in use, as a purely precautionary measure, we are rotating the release key. Read More
Second independent audit of SecureDrop Workstation completed
We are pleased to announce that Trail of Bits has completed the second independent audit of the SecureDrop Workstation, directly funded by The New York Times. This audit, which took place in December 2020 and January 2021, is the result of a two-engineer, six person-weeks effort. The SecureDrop Workstation, based on Qubes OS, is our next-generation platform which allows journalists to safely retrieve, decrypt, open and export anonymous submissions. It is currently being used in a limited pilot, and the first audit of the SecureDrop Workstation was completed in late 2018. Read More
Advisory: Outage of some long-running instances after SecureDrop 1.7.0 release
On January 27, the SecureDrop 1.7.0 update affected the availability of some longer running SecureDrop instances. This was due to a bug introduced by a recent code change. Read More
SecureDrop Advisory: End-of-life for v2 onion services and Ubuntu 16.04
SecureDrop administrators and users should be aware of two upcoming critical migrations that are required to keep SecureDrop instances online. Read More