Happy New Year! Phoenix R&D enters 2025 with some good news! Over the last few months we have doubled our team size, which will help us shorten our development cycles.

We are excited about the new research projects. These projects also allow us to further diversify our sources of income.

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This weekend, @raphaelrobert.bsky.social and @julianmair.com are joining the #GlobalGathering.

We will be hosting a booth and circle on Saturday to discuss the current state of privacy preserving and decentralized messengers.

We look forward to seeing you at there! Feel free to ping us!

We attended the Real World Crypto Symposium in Toronto 🇨🇦 where @raphaelrobert.bsky.social talked about how far MLS has come since RWC 2019.
Highlights:
- Post-quantum resistance and how easy it is to upgrade from current schemes
- Deployment in existing products like Webex and Discord
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We ended 2023 with a talk at #37C3. @raphaelrobert.bsky.social and Konrad presented Messaging Layer Security (MLS).
The room was packed and some people couldn't attend – luckily the talk is now online.
🍿 media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12064...

#securemessaging #encryption #e2ee #messaginglayersecurity

We are very excited to be at #37c3 in Hamburg after a long pandemic break. On day 3 (29.12., 3:45pm), @raphaelrobert.bsky.social and Konrad will give a talk on “RFC 9420 – or how to scale end-to-end encryption with Messaging Layer Security (MLS)”
👉 fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...

After #chatcontrol, lawmakers are now trying to mandate government-controlled certificates in browsers. Along with 400 experts and researchers from around the world, our Head of Research Konrad Kohbrok has signed an open letter to abandon the #eIDAS plans.
eidas-open-letter.org