The maintainers of the open BitTorrent protocol for file sharing have fixed a vulnerability that allowed lone attackers with only modest resources to take down large sites using a new form of ...

BitTorrent, Inc. is developing a serverless instant messaging system that relies on public key encryption to protect the privacy of communications, identifying users not with traditional usernames but ...

The world's most successful data transfer protocol could underlie the next generation chat client: Bleep will provide totally secure, totally peer-to-peer chatting from BitTorrent. Share on Facebook ...

Perhaps the company's most important innovation since its co-founder Bram Cohen released the BitTorrent protocol in 2001, BitTorrent Sync has now entered public beta and is available to download. Sync ...

Snapchat and other ephemeral chat apps might delete messages from your phone after they’re read, but as with other texting and messaging apps, that data is still sent through and stored on a central ...

Last fall, BitTorrent (the company) announced and experimental plan to build a secure chat system using the protocol that’s most famous for enabling file sharing. Today, we’re getting our first look ...