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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Getting the most out of YubiKeys for your business

Got a business? Yubineeding Yubikeys.

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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