Users store a huge amount of data online, but is that information safe? It’s very rare to be able to pick and choose which information is shared. Most collaboration platforms – whether messaging apps or documents – don’t make privacy the norm.
The Berkman Klein Center’s Applied Social Media Lab is thrilled to share Encrypted Spaces, which explores an architecture for collaborative applications where data is encrypted and operations are cryptographically verifiable. As ASML Principal Investigator James Mickens explained, the project “allows users to access the benefits of cloud-based services (e.g., always-available data and cross-device syncing) without forcing them to reveal sensitive information to people outside of trusted groups.”
Developed in close collaboration with the Cryptography Group at Microsoft Research, the project includes an open-source repository and a technical whitepaper describing the encrypted spaces architecture, both available on its website.
Encrypted Spaces was recently showcased in WIRED in a piece titled “Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps,” and in Gizmodo, which featured quotes from project lead and ASML Senior Engineer Nora Trapp.
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