https://spectre.app/ Recent content on Spectre: Passwords, Privacy-first Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sun, 31 Oct 2021 11:10:00 -0400 https://spectre.app/blog/2021-10-31-spectre-ios-launch/ Sun, 31 Oct 2021 11:10:00 -0400 https://spectre.app/blog/2021-10-31-spectre-ios-launch/ What is Master Password? In 2010, I began work on an algorithm for addressing my own personal password needs. Frustrated with the constant demand for passwords from every new website and unsatisfied with the existing proposals for how to address this need by the market, I had the benefit of being a software engineer and a background in security applications development. The first few iterations of my personal solutions were simple, but it quickly became apparent that a complete and reliable solution that could adequately address the many security pitfalls was going to require deeper commitment. https://spectre.app/author/maarten-billemont/ Sat, 30 Oct 2021 11:58:20 -0500 https://spectre.app/author/maarten-billemont/ Founded by Maarten Billemont, Spectre aims to address the growing trend of corporate ownership over our digital identities on the Internet. https://spectre.app/policy/eula/ Mon, 20 Sep 2021 19:22:20 -0400 https://spectre.app/policy/eula/ Spectre makes its applications available for you to use only under these terms. The Terms You are the end-user You enter into this agreement between Spectre and yourself, acting as an end-user of Spectre’s applications. There are no third parties involved in any of the terms under this agreement. This agreement doesn’t transfer. It applies solely to your using the Spectre applications on your personal devices. You agree to honour any applicable third-party agreements that may apply during your usage of our applications. https://spectre.app/about/ Sat, 08 May 2021 11:58:20 -0500 https://spectre.app/about/ Founded by Maarten Billemont, Spectre aims to address the growing trend of corporate ownership over our digital identities on the Internet. Founder Journey Maarten Billemont began his professional work in the security industry at Secuteam, where he worked on a hardware firewall product for small businesses. The AXS Web box formed a one-stop solution for protecting a business network from spam and intrusion, while ensuring reliable auditing capabilities. The product was beefed up with SNMP-based health monitoring and automatic fail-over to avoid any single point of failures. https://spectre.app/blog/2021-03-28-password-approaches/ Sun, 28 Mar 2021 12:13:00 -0400 https://spectre.app/blog/2021-03-28-password-approaches/ What is trust? When seriously evaluating a security solution, we need to be clear about our end goals. By formalizing the concept of password security concretely, we gain the ability to test solutions and evaluate their real benefit in concrete fact. All trust is by necessity limited. There are no guarantees. What it means “to trust a solution” therefore requires an objective awareness of what the solution’s security parameters are and whether those parameters are compatible with our security needs. https://spectre.app/blog/2021-02-04-whats-a-password/ Thu, 04 Feb 2021 18:45:00 -0500 https://spectre.app/blog/2021-02-04-whats-a-password/ If we played Word Association and I said password, what would be your next thought? Confidence? Trust? Safety? Serenity? Reassurance? Anxiety? Frustration? Incorrect? Reset? That one word you use to secure every account because, who cares? What’s going on with passwords? Why are they everywhere, and why are they such a pain? You shall not pass Before we try to answer any of these questions, let’s go back to the basics for some context. https://spectre.app/policy/guidelines/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:12:20 -0500 https://spectre.app/policy/guidelines/ We invite everyone with a constructive interest in Spectre to participate in its community and contribute thoughts, questions, feedback and recommendations. Guidelines To ensure a healthy and inclusive environment for you, we engage to uphold the following guidelines for the conduct of all members in the community: We Are People We are the people of the world, each with our unique background and experience. We are talented in ways others are not. https://spectre.app/policy/disclaimer/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:12:20 -0500 https://spectre.app/policy/disclaimer/ Spectre’s mission is to empower the people of the world with personal security, liability and liberty from control by external entities. That said, Spectre produces software, not security services, and Spectre’s products are provided as-is. They do not come with any guarantees. We have no oversight over, and assume no liability for the way in which you choose to use Spectre. We do not provide any guarantees with how Spectre operates or what the expectations are for using it. https://spectre.app/policy/privacy/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:12:20 -0500 https://spectre.app/policy/privacy/ In Short Spectre has adopted a zero-PII (personally identifiable information) policy by default, with the intent of making your sensitive personal information effectively inaccessible to us. What does this mean? Spectre apps will never: Transmit your name, passwords, personal or contact information. Transmit any information which could be used to identify you. It is for these reasons that: You do not actually hold an account with us. We can not recover your lost credentials. https://spectre.app/blog/2018-01-06-algorithm/ Sat, 06 Jan 2018 15:44:20 -0500 https://spectre.app/blog/2018-01-06-algorithm/ Statelessness At the core of the Spectre solution is the principle of statelessness. State is the technical term for “what needs to be saved”. In most tasks, state is used to ensure you don’t need to redo your work. You write a document and save it to disk so you needn’t rewrite it every time you need it. But not all state is reproducible. When you save your sites' passwords on your computer, be it in a program or elsewhere, you depend on that information whenever you need to log in. https://spectre.app/why/enterprise/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://spectre.app/why/enterprise/ Zero Trust, Zero Risk. In managing a corporate infrastructure, risk is everything. Every question a business responds to ultimately boils down to accurately identifying the risks involved and providing a satisfactory threshold or effective countermeasure. Tell me about your current access models. How many employees do you need access controls for? How do you keep those controls valid and in-sync? How well can you truly guarantee the availability while still policing the effective containment of those grants? https://spectre.app/why/spectre/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://spectre.app/why/spectre/ Passwords, boo. Passwords are a nightmare most of us would rather do without. They’re an obstacle to the things we really want, yet we got saddled with the burden of doing them right and the guilt of not being able to. The reality is that we’re asked to perform an impossible task: Human brains are not fit for coming up with and remembering the countless secure passwords we supposedly need as online denizens.