Does the solution to secure instant messaging from prying eyes lie in how torrents work? BitTorrent thinks it might, and is testing out a server-free messaging system. Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt ...

In the wake of contractor Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations, the drive to create more secure communications tools has taken on an extra urgency. Although BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer filesharing outfit ...

BitTorrent, the company, continues its push to prove that the BitTorrent, the protocol , isn’t just for online piracy anymore. The company’s latest product tease is a new instant messaging service ...

BitTorrent is good for more than downloading copyrighted content--it's a technology that can be used to distribute game patches, share files, and now to send secure messages. BotTorrent's new Bleep ...

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 ...

Anyone looking forward to using BitTorrent’s secure web browser codenamed Project Malestrom as a final release will be pleased to learn that is has taken another step closer. Over the weekend ...

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. BitTorrent wants to build a secure chat service that will only ever let a message ...

BitTorrent dismissed claims that its popular peer-to-peer file synchronization program BitTorrent Sync has an insecure cryptographic implementation that potentially gives the company access to users’ ...

Peer-to-peer file-sharing service BitTorrent has released a file backup service that uses secure P2P transfer instead of the cloud. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

BitTorrent has just announced its latest project: A private chat platform that runs on secure, distributed computers. BitTorrent Chat is a “pre-Alpha experiment in server-less messaging” from the ...