We’re pleased to announce that we are bringing our WEBCAT and SecureDrop Protocol projects to the Real World Crypto Symposium on March 9-11 in Taipei, Taiwan. The conference connects cryptography researchers with developers implementing cryptography in real-world systems.

One talk, “Improving the Trustworthiness of JavaScript on the Web,” will be presented by Giulio Berra of SecureDrop, along with industry representatives from Mozilla, Cloudflare, and Meta. It will cover the shared problem of establishing trust in browser-delivered web applications, the threat model motivating this work, and the approaches taken by WEBCAT, Meta’s Code Verify, and the emerging WAICT effort to standardize similar integrity mechanisms for the modern web.

A second talk, “SecureDrop Next Generation: Lessons from a Decade of Deployment,” authored by Berra, Cory Francis Myers, and Rowen S. of SecureDrop, and Felix Linker, Luca Maier, Kenneth G. Paterson, and Shannon Veitch of ETH Zurich, will be presented by Rowen and Shannon. This presentation will cover the new deployment possibilities opened up by secure end-to-end-encrypted messaging under the SecureDrop Protocol.

To learn more about each project, read our WEBCAT FAQ and watch our recent presentation with ETH Zurich at the IETF on using Tamarin to model the SecureDrop Protocol.

As the core cryptographic concepts of the SecureDrop Protocol stabilize, we will be inviting consultation with newsrooms, journalists, and users on our next steps. To express early interest, you can reach us via the SecureDrop support portal.

Hope to see you in Taipei!

Image credit: Metropolitan skyline of Taipei, Taiwan by 毛貓大少爺, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license