{"id":273059,"date":"2026-06-14T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/signal-veterans-want-to-encrypt-slack-google-docs-and-basically-every-other-app\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:40:09","slug":"signal-veterans-want-to-encrypt-slack-google-docs-and-basically-every-other-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/signal-veterans-want-to-encrypt-slack-google-docs-and-basically-every-other-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Signal Veterans Want to Encrypt Slack, Google Docs, and Basically Every Other App"},"content":{"rendered":"

Signal Veterans Want to Encrypt Slack, Google Docs, and Basically Every Other App<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/signal-veterans-want-to-encrypt-slack-google-docs-and-basically-every-other-app-2000771623<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-14 15:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

A team of developers, including the co-creator of the Signal protocol and contributors from Microsoft and Harvard, are building out open-source software that can help bring the sort of hardened privacy and security offered via Signal\u2019s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to more collaborative types of apps, such as Slack, Google Docs, and Discord. The project is known as Encrypted Spaces, and although it is currently described as being in a \u201cResearch Preview\u201d phase, code already exists on GitHub.<\/p>\n

The project\u2019s website describes the software as an attempt to push back against risks associated with exposure, loss of control, and self-censorship that have grown through the increased use of highly-trusted, centralized cloud services. \u201cFor journalists, activists, patients, and social-service organizations, these risks are not theoretical\u2014they shape what can safely be said, shared, or built,\u201d the website notes.<\/p>\n

A new research effort called Encrypted Spaces explores an architecture for collaborative applications where data is encrypted, and operations are cryptographically verifiable. Learn more: https:\/\/t.co\/t7qkE27Xdh<\/p>\n

\u2014 Microsoft Research (@MSFTResearch) June 11, 2026<\/p>\n

Rather than producing a suite of individual apps, the project is built as infrastructure for developers to create encrypted apps of their own. \u201cWe want to provide the technological surface area for developers to build all these apps in a privacy-preserving way,\u201d Nora Trapp, an engineer at Harvard\u2019s Applied Social Media Lab and former technical lead at the Signal Foundation, told Wired. \u201cYou can think of it as the Signal protocol for collaboration apps,\u201d Johns Hopkins Computer Science Professor Matt Green added.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on X, Anthony Ronning, who is the CTO of privacy-focused AI startup Maple, described Encrypted Spaces as \u201cVerifiable, encrypted, untrusted storage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea is to take the complexities of cryptography out of the equation and create a platform…<\/p>\n

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