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IOS
Filling with your approval: On 1Password’s App Extension and iOS 8 security
by Jeffrey Goldberg Aug 14, 2014
iOS 8 has an incredible feature coming called App Extensions, and we’re thrilled to say we have a 1Password extension ready for developers to use right in their apps! In apps that gain support for our extension, you will no longer have to copy and paste passwords from 1Password. Yes, it really is a game changer, and you can see it in action for …
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SECURITY
1Password is a very safe basket
by Jeffrey Goldberg Jul 16, 2014
When you use a password manager, you are putting a great deal of valuable and sensitive information in one place. The expression, putting all your eggs in one basket is apt. When you put all your very valuable eggs in one basket, it is absolutely fit and proper to ask how secure that basket is.
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SECURITY
No, you do not need to change passwords in response to the OpenSSL CCS bugs
by Jeffrey Goldberg Jun 13, 2014
For the third time this year, there is yet another flaw in an underlying security technology used across the net: the recently fixed OpenSSL bugs announced on June 5. For our customers, we are happy to report that 1Password is not affected by bugs in SSL implementations, nor do these bugs require that most people change passwords.
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SECURITY
NEWS
Introducing the 1Password Watchtower service for Heartbleed and beyond
by Jeffrey Goldberg Apr 16, 2014
When news of the internet’s Heartbleed bug broke last week, we published what we knew about it and the implications for 1Password and 1Password users. To recap: 1Password is not affected by Heartbleed, but there are steps you need to take to protect your passwords from sites that may have been affected. Today, we’re introducing a new service to …
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SECURITY
Heartbleed: Imagine no SSL encryption, it’s scary if you try
by Jeffrey Goldberg Apr 8, 2014
Only two months ago, in the wake of the “goto fail” bug, we had to point out that 1Password’s security does not depend on SSL/TLS. Today, with the far more damaging Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL, we need to tell you the same. 1Password’s technology is not built upon SSL/TLS in general, and not upon OpenSSL in particular. 1Password’s encryption remains …
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SECURITY
Large even prime number discovered
by Jeffrey Goldberg Apr 1, 2014
You have probably been taught that two is the only even prime number. But today mathematicians at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople have discovered a new, large, even prime. It is more than a million digits long and is equal to the value of 3²²³⁷⁵⁶¹+3¹¹¹⁸⁷⁸¹.
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