Congruence

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

YubiKey

Getting the most out of YubiKeys for your business

Got a business? Yubineeding Yubikeys.

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

Product Announcements

Screw Notes - Lessons Learned Building a Server-less Productivity App

This post was originally published on Medium.com. Over the years I’ve tried numerous “productivity” products to try to wrangle my workload. Evernote, OneNote, Pen + Paper, Notion.so, Word Documents, Excel Spreadsheets, Trello, etc. The key that affects the success of me using

Signata

2020 Development Updates

Happy New Year! 2019 was an exciting year for us - we finally reached the point where we could release the Signata beta to the public, and the product has evolved massively since then. So where will 2020 take us? We don't know yet,