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20 November 2019, 0 Comments

We're hiring - Come work with us!

We're hiring! Come work with us as a working student or freelancer in the field of software development, computer science or electrical engineering. As a dynamic Berlin-based IT security startup and a world leader in the development of open source security hardware, we're looking for a talent interested in helping us further grow our company and making a significant contribution to a secure digital world.

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11 May 2019, 6 Comments

Nitrokey and Nextcloud Collaborate on Securing Private Clouds

Nextcloud lets users access and collaborate on documents, calendars and in video chats in the browser or through mobile apps. Over 200 apps extend Nextcloud functionality with features like playing music and movies, tracking your phone, reading news, mindmapping and more.

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17 April 2019, 0 Comments

Nitrokey partners with Gentoo Foundation to equip developers with USB keys

The Gentoo Foundation has partnered with Nitrokey to equip all Gentoo developers with free Nitrokey Pro 2 devices. Gentoo developers will use the Nitrokey devices to store cryptographic keys for signing of git commits and software packages, GnuPG keys, and SSH accounts.

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15 March 2019, 24 Comments

New Nitrokey HSM 2 with RSA-4096, ECC-521, AES-256

We are excited to announce the long awaited Nitrokey HSM 2. Finally it supports highly secure cryptography with RSA-4096, ECC-521, AES-256, and SHA-512. Supported elliptic curves are: SECG / NIST P-192, P-256, P-521; Bitcoin Koblitz curve secp192k1, secp256k1, secp521k1; Brainpool 192-512. The storage capacity has been increased significantly to store 300x ECC/AES-256 keys, 150x ECC-521 keys, 19x RSA-4096 keys, or 38x RSA-2048 keys. What Nitrokey HSM 2 is used for:

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06 November 2018, 15 Comments

New: Nitrokey FIDO U2F

Now it's finally time to launch our brand-new Nitrokey FIDO U2F. After uncounted hours of hard work, we are very proud to present you our newest product. The Nitrokey FIDO U2F does two things for you: First, it protects your most precious accounts at home and at work. Second, it makes it easy as never before to use two-factor authentication.

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29 October 2018, 0 Comments

Nitrokey Pro 2 Available

The new Nitrokey Pro 2 is now available and can be ordered in our online shop! Nitrokey Pro 2 includes the following new features and improvements:

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01 October 2018, 3 Comments

Nitrokey Partners with Purism to Build the Librem Key

We are partnering with the open source hardware manufacturer Purism—known for its Librem laptop series—to build the Purism Librem Key. This partnership is a milestone on our mission to improve the users' privacy and security with free and open source hardware and software.

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28 June 2018, 11 Comments

Nitrokey Storage 2 Released

The new Nitrokey Storage 2 is now available and can be ordered in our online shop! Nitrokey Storage 2 includes the following new features and improvements:

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14 June 2018, 2 Comments

Security Update for Nitrokey Storage

Under certain circumstances the Nitrokey Storage could use an empty AES key to encrypt the mass storage and Password Safe, allowing an attacker to decrypt the encrypted data. As a precaution all Nitrokey Storage should be updated to firmware 0.51 or higher which prevents unlocking with a zero AES key. Nitrokey Storage with firmware 0.51 or higher and other Nitrokey models are not affected.

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02 April 2018, 0 Comments

Nitrokey Partners With The Linux Foundation to Equip All Linux Kernel Developers With Nitrokey USB Keys

Nitrokey is proud to announce a partnership with The Linux Foundation to equip over 2000 Linux kernel developers with Nitrokey Start USB keys. Linux kernel developers will have the ability to cryptographically sign code with OpenPGP/GnuPG signatures, as a strict requirement when sending merge requests directly to Linus Torvalds.

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