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The Signal Technology Foundation, commonly known as the Signal Foundation, [1] [2] is an American non-profit organization founded in 2018 by Moxie Marlinspike and Brian Acton. [3] Its mission is to "protect free expression and enable secure global communication through open source privacy technology ."
Signal is now developed by Signal Messenger LLC, a software company founded by Moxie Marlinspike and Brian Acton in 2018, which is wholly owned by a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation called the Signal Technology Foundation, also created by them in 2018. The Foundation was funded with an initial loan of $50 million from Acton, "to support ...
Brian Acton (born February 17, 1972) is an American business executive and computer programmer serving as the executive chairperson of Signal Technology Foundation, which he co-founded with Moxie Marlinspike in 2018. [1] [2] Acton also serves as interim chief executive officer (CEO) of Signal Messenger LLC. [3] He was formerly employed at Yahoo!.
Matthew Rosenfeld, better known by the pseudonym Moxie Marlinspike, is an American entrepreneur, cryptographer, and computer security researcher. [1] [3] Marlinspike is the creator of Signal, co-founder of the Signal Technology Foundation, and served as the first CEO of Signal Messenger LLC.
Meredith Whittaker is the president of the Signal Foundation and serves on its board of directors. [1] [2] [3] She was formerly the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University (NYU), and the co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute.
At the same time, OWS adds encrypted IM to Signal on iOS. [12] Nov 2015: RedPhone is merged into TextSecure on Android and the app is renamed as Signal. [13] Dec 2015: Signal Desktop is launched as a Chrome App. [14] Oct 2017: OWS announces the deprecation of their Chrome App and the release of a new Electron-based Signal Desktop. [15] Mar 2017
The Signal Protocol (formerly known as the TextSecure Protocol) is a non-federated cryptographic protocol that provides end-to-end encryption for voice and instant messaging conversations. [2] The protocol was developed by Open Whisper Systems in 2013 [ 2 ] and was introduced in the open-source TextSecure app, which later became Signal .
The Polychrony toolset is an open-source development environment for critical/embedded systems based on SIGNAL, a real-time polychronous dataflow language. It provides a unified model-driven environment to perform design exploration by using top-down and bottom-up design methodologies formally supported by design model transformations from specification to implementation and from synchrony to ...