News

New White Paper - Implementing Secure, Decentralized Storage to Protect Mobile Media

Explore the research, development, and deployment processes that we and Hypha Co-Operative used to co-create the first secure, decentralized mobile media storage backend.

11/21/24

News

How We Created the First Decentralized Storage Backend for Mobile Media

In Spring 2024, OpenArchive joined forces with Hypha Worker Co-operative and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web to co-develop the first secure, usable Decentralized storage backend for mobile media. The following post dives into some of the more technical aspects of our project.

11/14/24

News

OpenArchive, Hypha, and FFDW Collaborate to Create the First DWeb Mobile Backend in Save

In 2024, DWeb and archiving experts unite to forge a more secure, decentralized storage system for mobile media and beyond.

02/13/24

Research

Mapping the Decentralized Storage Ecosystem

What truly defines a storage system as decentralized, beyond data distribution, is the underlying principle that the computers hosting the data are controlled by different entities and that no single entity exercises full control.

12/11/23

Research

A Year in Review: Celebrating the impact of our Decentralized Archivist Communities

This Human Rights Day, OpenArchive is highlighting the important work our Decentralized Archivist Communities do to fight for a more just world for at-risk groups. They work to combat electoral violence, threats to the environment, gender-based violence, arbitrary detention, and many other pressing issues.

10/20/23

Research

Preserving the Past, Protecting the Future: The Vital Role of Encryption in Media Preservation

Privacy-focused archivists rely on encryption to protect at-risk communities, safeguard sensitive media, maintain data integrity, control access, and facilitate secure storage and transfer.

07/31/23

News

OTF & Trail of Bits’ Independent Security Audit of Save

Through support from the Open Tech Fund's (OTF) Red Team Lab, OpenArchive successfully completed a third-party security audit conducted by Trail of Bits.

10/03/22

Research

Archiving Forward Part 2 - Mapping Our Decentralized Ecosystem

This second part of our “Archiving Forward” series will talk about our decentralized ecosystem, and how community organizations, tech developers, and everyday users each play a critical role in preserving, amplifying, and securely routing significant records of important social events and privacy-sensitive information.

09/08/22

Research

What you need to know about the United States’ latest privacy bill

A federal privacy bill may give Americans more control over their data but does not go far enough and would weaken existing state protections.

11/18/21

News

FFDW and OpenArchive Collaborate to Deploy Decentralized Archive to Safeguard Important Community Media

OpenArchive receives Grant from FFDW to Help Secure, Share, and Store Important Community Media on the Decentralized Web

02/16/21

Research

Archiving Forward - Demystifying the Cloud

Our “Archiving Forward” blog series will explore and explain how different actors, from individuals, to community organizations, to technology providers, each play critical roles in preserving, amplifying, and securely sending significant and impactful mobile media to their destinations.

05/13/18

Research

Why OpenArchive?

Despite the egalitarian accolades heaped upon early content platform startups, access to this new world of media has become unbalanced and asymmetrical. Before users learn the hard way that they cannot trust corporate platforms with valued and sensitive digital media, OpenArchive provides an alternative secure archiving solution at scale.

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