Milagro: A distributed cryptosystem for the cloud

A new open source project within the Apache Incubator aims to create an alternative to outdated and problematic monolithic trust hierarchies such as commercial certificate authorities. Apache Milagro (incubating) is a distributed cryptosystem for cloud computing. A joint undertaking by MIRACL (formerly Certivox), NTT Innovation Institute, and NTT Labs, it will establish a new internet security framework made of cryptographic service providers called Distributed Trust Authorities, who independently issue shares of keys to application endpoints … More Continue reading Milagro: A distributed cryptosystem for the cloud