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OTF & Assured AB’s Independent Security Audit of Save

OTF & Assured AB’s Independent Security Audit of Save

With support from the Open Tech Fund’s Red Team Lab, OpenArchive has completed a new independent security audit of Save, conducted by Assured AB.

SplinterCon 2025, Paris: A Recap

SplinterCon 2025, Paris: A Recap

Surveillance and censorship technologies are evolving, but so are we.

Implementing Secure, Decentralized Storage to Protect Mobile Media

Implementing Secure, Decentralized Storage to Protect Mobile Media

Learn about the research, development, and deployment processes we implemented with Hypha Co-Operative to co-create the first secure, decentralized mobile media storage backend.

How We Created the First Decentralized Storage Backend for Mobile Media

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.

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

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.

Mapping the Decentralized Storage Ecosystem

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.

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

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.

Memo from Mexico City: Examining the needs of documenter communities working in Mexico

Memo from Mexico City: Examining the needs of documenter communities working in Mexico

Mexican human rights defenders face increasing threats for documenting human rights abuses in the country. Our recent needs assessment offers insight into the realities, challenges, and opportunities faced by human rights defenders, journalists, and eyewitnesses in Mexico while documenting and archiving evidence of violence and injustice.

Memo from Havana: Examining the needs of documenter communities working in Cuba

Memo from Havana: Examining the needs of documenter communities working in Cuba

Cuban human rights defenders face increasing threats for documenting government repression and violence. Our recent needs assessment offers insight into the realities, challenges, and opportunities that human rights defenders in the Cuban context face while documenting and archiving evidence of injustice.

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

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.

Memo from Quito: Understanding the Needs of Ecuador’s Documenter Communities

Memo from Quito: Understanding the Needs of Ecuador’s Documenter Communities

Ecuadorian human rights defenders face increasing threats for their work combatting abuses by mining operations.

OTF & Trail of Bits' Independent Security Audit of Save

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.

Memo from Khartoum: Responding to Documenters’ Needs in Escalating Conflict

Memo from Khartoum: Responding to Documenters’ Needs in Escalating Conflict

In a moment of escalating conflict in Sudan, our recent needs assessment with a local human rights organization offers an insightful glimpse into the realities, challenges, and opportunities that Sudanese human rights defenders face as they document and archive evidence of injustice.

Memo from Baghdad: Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Iraqi Documenters

Memo from Baghdad: Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Iraqi Documenters

In a moment when free speech is under direct threat in Iraq, our recent needs assessment with an Iraqi partner organization offers an insightful glimpse into the realities, challenges, and opportunities that Iraqi human rights defenders are facing as they document and archive evidence of injustice.

Memo from Kharkiv: Mapping the realities of Ukrainian documenter communities

Memo from Kharkiv: Mapping the realities of Ukrainian documenter communities

After working with a partner organization in Ukraine for the past year, our recent needs assessment offers an insightful glimpse into the realities, challenges, and opportunities that Ukrainian human rights defenders are facing in their efforts to document and expose war crimes.

Archiving Forward Part 2 - Mapping Our Decentralized Ecosystem

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.

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

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.

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

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

Archiving Forward - Demystifying the Cloud

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.

Why OpenArchive?

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.