Congruence

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,

Signata

Signata RC6 - The Charts Edition

Today we've released our sixth release candidate for Signata, which is already available from the Downloads page of the website. This is probably the largest update we've pushed so far - most is under the hood, but there are some huge improvements to the

Product Announcements

Signata RC5 Out Now - Goodbye Subscriptions!

When we first started building Signata we wanted to make sure we were offering a service at the lowest cost we could handle. We figured it would be easiest for customers to just pay a small monthly fee, and that would cover everything for

Product Announcements

RC4 Available Now - Mnemonic Passphrases, and Subscription Changes

We've updated the Signata website to now let you download the desktop app again. We disabled it for a couple of days, just to make sure new users didn't use the old version and potentially set up their account with the outdated approach we

Product Announcements

Signata 0.9.8 Released, and learning about how we add YubiKeys

The latest version of the Signata Beta is now available, with the download links updated on the website. Check it out! We've made a stack of improvements to the desktop application to address some bugs that appeared, as well as to simplify how we

Product Announcements

Signata RC3 - More Coins, Vault-Only Addresses, and bug fixes

Happy Wattle Day! In celebration, we've pushed out the latest Release Candidate of Signata, available for download now on the Signata website.

General Information

Stop calling it "Military-Grade Encryption"

One of the common marketing phrases I intentionally omitted from our product information is "Military-Grade Encryption". Another fairly common one is "Banking-Grade Encryption". I believe these phrases should just be replaced with "Industry Standard Encryption", if you even want to give it a name

Signata

Signata vs. Hardware & Software Wallets

In the Cryptocurrency world, there are two ways to store your keys - Hardware wallets, and Software wallets. Hardware wallets are physical devices or tokens that store your keys, and Software wallets are one of the many applications that you install on your Phone

Product Announcements

Signata Release Candidate 2 — The Software Keys Edition

This post was originally published on Medium: https://medium.com/@congruent_tim/signata-release-candidate-2-the-software-keys-edition-38e33234c2a8 One of the biggest barriers to users setting up Signata was the fact that they needed a YubiKey before they could actually use the product. To overcome this we’ve released

Signata

Announcing Signata

This post was originally published on Medium: https://medium.com/@congruent_tim/announcing-signata-cd86001dd846 We released something new to the world this past weekend. Signata is a Cryptocurrency Vault Service. Crypto vaults are not a new concept, but we wanted to address three glaring problems