MFA The Cheapest Online Documentation Repository for Startups I had a problem. I wanted public documentation with open collaboration, but I couldn't afford most of the products out there. As a startup we need to keep lean, and
General Information Why Blockchains are not the answer to Voting Systems (yet) Any time there is an election the inevitable question crops up about electronic voting. Paper ballots are rounded up, and there are delays in counting, recounts, contesting, nail-biting, and political
General Information Our new Subreddit I've been looking at options for hosting a forum for our products. Somewhere a little less formal than just a support portal, but with content available to the general public for future reference. Discourse is my preferred option, but unfortunately we can't really afford
Product Announcements Our New Support Portal This is a brief update - we're just letting everyone know we now have a new support portal for all support queries for our products. You can access the portal by clicking here. We've got support portals for 3 of our products so far,
General Information How to hold Bitcoin & Ethereum outside of Exchanges It doesn't need to be difficult to hold and manage your cryptocurrency yourself. All it takes is a little bit of time, research, and some useful tools to take control back from the exchanges.
General Information Using PIV Cards for every Business You don't need to spend a fortune on PIV card management tools - some YubiKeys and simple software is enough to get started securing your business.
Product Announcements Signata 1.1.1 - Importing your YubiKeys This is a quick update - we just wanted to let you know that Signata version 1.1.1 is now available from the Signata website, and brings in a
General Information Understanding cold storage wallets, and why they don't need to be so cold If you've dabbled in the cryptocurrency world, you'll probably hear about "hot" and "cold" wallets - "hot" basically meaning a wallet that is connected to the world and currently in
Signata Building Trust, and how we never see your Cryptocurrency Private Keys Building trust with new products and services is difficult, but I'm hoping as the Product Manager for Signata I can help build that trust with you by trying to be
Product Announcements Signata 1.1.0 - Now Supporting XRP We've been busy making a whole bunch of bug fixes in the last week. They aren't particularly interesting to blog about (they were mainly issues around data encoding when we
General Information The case of Kucoin, and moving your assets out of exchanges The recent hack on Kucoin isn't anything new to the cryptocurrency world. Its terrible, and I'd hate to experience what the Kucoin owners would have felt seeing such a large
ECC Why 2FA isn't enough with Crypto Exchanges A lot of trust needs to be put in to cryptocurrency exchanges. Firstly because you're entrusting them with your Fiat currency, and secondly because you're entrusting them with the keys
Signata Supported YubiKeys in Signata For using YubiKeys with Signata, both Personal and Enterprise Editions, we have some limitations and considerations on which YubiKeys we can actually use, which we'll detail below. We'll also update this article when any changes to this list are made. Models we supportIn a
Signata Using your YubiKey to protect your MetaMask Accounts DeFi is gaining incredible momentum at the moment, and MetaMask is a service delivering super easy integration with decentralised exchanges like Uniswap. If you want greater assurance that your address
Product Announcements Signata 1.0.0 - and why we've removed IdP Authentication We just released a new huge update for Signata, and with it we've done something we somewhat regret needing to do, but it's far better for our longer term product
Screw Notes Screw Notes Update - Sorting is finally here, and now cheaper! We've pushed a new version of Screw Notes to production, and there are a few new exciting features we've added! It's CheaperWhen we first launched Screw Notes we weren't sure exactly how much it would cost to operate. After observing some real use of
YubiKey Essential Eight, Essentially The Australian Government publishes a bunch of guidance on how to secure government information systems. Whilst this guidance is basically just aimed at government departments to implement (because they probably
Signata Signata Enterprise Patch 1.2.3 - Better Device UI A new version of Signata Enterprise has just been released - this version includes the following changes: The device list on the main page is now paginated - you can show 25, 50, or 100 rows per page.The device list is also now
Product Announcements Introducing Signata Enterprise: Standalone Edition 2020 is turning into a memorable year for the world, but not for the right reasons. The COVID-19 pandemic has afflicted not only people, but the organisations they work for. Those of us lucky enough to work in jobs that can be done remotely
Troubleshooting Error: Nothing was returned from render - a production-only bug I was prepping our first release of Signata Enterprise (it's not out yet, but with this problem solved it will be very soon!), and when I was doing our final regression testing a strange new error had surfaced. Most frustratingly the error would only
Screw Notes Screw Notes 2020-05 Updates We've been pushing out a bunch of new features for Screw Notes. There was a little bit of a lag between the initial release and these new updates - this was from my co-founder, Ben, rewriting the whole code base to be more amazing,
Troubleshooting TLS Ciphers with RSA Certificates signed by ECDSA PKIs If you've configured a web server with an RSA certificate signed by an ECDSA Certificate Authority, then you may get errors from your browsers like: ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR (Chrome) SSL_ERROR_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE_ALERT (Firefox)If this web server works perfectly fine with
General Information This Blog is Changing At Congruent Labs we have a number of concurrent projects running at once - we've got Signata (our Cryptocurrency Vault Service), Screw Notes (a productivity app), and two new products we're very close to launching. Not only that but we do quite a lot
Screw Notes Screw Notes - now with feedback from real users This post was originally published on Medium.com. After hacking it together over a weekend I released Screw Notes to the world a week ago today, and it’s been interesting to watch what has happened. For starters, no, a productivity app isn’t
