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  • 01 October 2018, 3 Comments

    Nitrokey Partners with Purism to Build the Librem Key

    We are partnering with the open source hardware manufacturer Purism—known for its Librem laptop series—to build the Purism Librem Key. This partnership is a milestone on our mission to improve the users' privacy and security with free and open source hardware and software.
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  • 28 June 2018, 13 Comments

    Nitrokey Storage 2 Released

    The new Nitrokey Storage 2 is now available and can be ordered in our online shop! Nitrokey Storage 2 includes the following new features and improvements:
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  • 14 June 2018, 2 Comments

    Security Update for Nitrokey Storage

    Under certain circumstances the Nitrokey Storage could use an empty AES key to encrypt the mass storage and Password Safe, allowing an attacker to decrypt the encrypted data. As a precaution all Nitrokey Storage should be updated to firmware 0.51 or higher which prevents unlocking with a zero AES key. Nitrokey Storage with firmware 0.51 or higher and other Nitrokey models are not affected.
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  • 02 April 2018, 0 Comments

    Nitrokey Partners With The Linux Foundation to Equip All Linux Kernel Developers With Nitrokey USB Keys

    Nitrokey is proud to announce a partnership with The Linux Foundation to equip over 2000 Linux kernel developers with Nitrokey Start USB keys. Linux kernel developers will have the ability to cryptographically sign code with OpenPGP/GnuPG signatures, as a strict requirement when sending merge requests directly to Linus Torvalds.
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  • 24 October 2017, 54 Comments

    Nitrokey Start Supports Elliptic Curves (ECC)

    RSA-2048 Becomes Increasingly Insecure
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  • 20 October 2017, 2 Comments

    Nitrokey is NOT Affected by ROCA Vulnerability

    Researchers discovered the ROCA vulnerability (CVE-2017-15361) which enables attackers to compute their victim's private RSA keys with little effort. Affected are RSA keys being generated in various hardware systems which contain the vulnerable chip from Infineon Technologies, such as computers with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), smart cards and USB dongles.
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  • Nitrokey Encryption Tool
    17 October 2017, 0 Comments

    Nitrokey Encryption Tool for Easy Hardware/HSM Integration

    Do you need strong hardware-based encryption for your own software but are afraid of it's complex integration? Here is a solution for you. The Nitrokey Encryption Tool is a command line interface application which uses on-device RSA keys to encrypt/decrypt AES keys used in turn to encrypt user data. This way you don't need to deal with hardware integration or more complicated RSA.
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  • 09 October 2017, 0 Comments

    Initiative „Starke Authentisierung – jetzt!“ zur Vorbeugung gegen Cyber-Kriminalität gestartet

    Vor dem Hintergrund der zahlreichen Sicherheitsvorfälle bei Anbietern von Online-Diensten und den damit verbundenen, oftmals millionenschweren Fällen von Identitätsdiebstahl haben sich Experten zu einer verbandsübergreifenden Initiative Starke Authentisierung - jetzt! zusammengefunden.
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  • 27 September 2017, 0 Comments

    Buying Nitrokeys With Bitcoins

    Due to numerous requests from our customers and in order to make (especially international) payments more attractive, we have added Bitcoin as an accepted payment method in our online shop. If you're not sure what to do with your increasingly valuable Bitcoins, this is for you too.
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  • 19 September 2017, 15 Comments

    Using Nitrokey on Android Phones

    Finally it is possible to use Nitrokey on Android smartphones. OpenKeychain, the popular Android app for OpenPGP encryption, supports Nitrokey. You can use your private keys on your Nitrokey to encrypt, decrypt and sign emails using OpenKeychain.
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