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Signal Co-Creator Launches Encrypted Spaces for Secure Collaboration

6/15/2026

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Developers including the Signal protocol co-creator and engineers from Microsoft, Harvard and Johns Hopkins launched Encrypted Spaces to add end-to-end encryption to collaborative apps.
The open-source library posted on GitHub uses zero-knowledge proofs so servers never see user data.
Harvard engineer Nora Trapp called Encrypted Spaces the Signal protocol for collaboration apps and released a demo app named Spaces on Thursday.

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Story summary

Developers including the Signal protocol co-creator and engineers from Microsoft, Harvard and Johns Hopkins launched Encrypted Spaces to add end-to-end encryption to collaborative apps.
The open-source library posted on GitHub uses zero-knowledge proofs so servers never see user data.
Harvard engineer Nora Trapp called Encrypted Spaces the Signal protocol for collaboration apps and released a demo app named Spaces on Thursday.