On behalf of the whole team, I’m proud to announce the first public release of Wildland client! This is a reference implementation of the Wildland protocol, which we have described in our “Why, What and How” (aka W2H) paper. Leaving aside all the usual disclaimers about how early-beta and for-power-users-only this version really is, I’d like to...

Earlier this year, I decided to take a sabbatical. I wanted to reflect on my infosec work and decide what I would like to focus on in the coming years. As you probably know, I’ve spent the last nine years mostly fighting the battle to secure the endpoint, more specifically creating, developing, architecting, and promoting Qubes OS, as well as the...

A few months ago, during my keynote at Black Hat Europe, I was discussing how we should be limiting the amount of trust when building computer systems. Recently, a new technology from Intel has been gaining popularity among both developers and researchers, a technology which promises a big step towards such trust-minimizing systems. I’m talking...

The Qubes OS project has been around for nearly 8 years now, since its original announcement back in April 2010 (and the actual origin date can be traced back to November 11th, 2009, when an initial email introducing this project was sent within ITL internally). Over these years Qubes has achieved reasonable success: according to our estimates,...

This is the 2nd post from the “cool things coming in Qubes 4.0” series, and it discusses the next generation Qubes Core Stack version 3, which is the heart of the new Qubes 4.x releases. The previous part discussed the Admin API which we also introduced in Qubes 4.0 and which heavily relies on this new Qubes Core Stack. Qubes Core Stack...

Finally, after years of work, we’re releasing the first release candidate for Qubes 4.0! Next Generation Qubes Core Stack for better integration No doubt this release marks a major milestone in Qubes OS development. The single most import undertaking which sets this release apart, is the complete rewrite of the Qubes Core Stack. We have a separate...