Frederic Rivain

An Update on Post-Quantum Work at Dashlane
As technology advances, so does the need for stronger and more secure methods of encryption. With the advent of quantum computing, traditional cryptographic methods may soon become obsolete, making it crucial for businesses to prepare for post-quantum cryptography. One challenge with post-quantum cryptography is that every piece of information that’s encrypted today and intended to […]

Security Terms 101: What Zero-Knowledge Architecture, Encryption, and More Really Mean
Learn more about industry terms such as zero-knowledge, encryption, key derivation functions, confidential computing, zero-trust, and more.

How Dashlane’s Bug Bounty Program Helps Us Be More Secure
Dashlane’s bug bounty program incentivizes white-hat hackers to identify bugs in our code to improve security.

Preparing for the Quantum World
Last summer, we blogged about our explorations of quantum cryptography. As a reminder, quantum cryptography is the science of exploiting quantum mechanical properties to perform cryptographic tasks. On Github, we released our exploration project that provides JS bindings and a playground of a post-quantum asymmetric cipher compiled in WebAssembly. The next step was to integrate […]

A Development Story: Engineering Career Paths at Dashlane
In the early days of a startup, everybody is doing a bit of everything. There are no clear scopes, titles, or boundaries between the early members. As the startup grows, so do its people—and the time comes for the technical leader to add a bit more structure. That way, you can provide team members with […]

The Dashlane Triple Track – Looking for the right organization
Today, I want to share the story of how we’ve evolved our organization over time. I hope you can learn from our success and our mistakes and get a bit of inspiration. The Dashlane story is a series of iterative steps. As we grew, we adapted our organizational structure to meet our changing needs. The […]

A Conversation About Privacy: Dashlane’s “Five Laws”
Internal conversations about what, exactly, privacy means to us led to codifying and publishing our “laws” of privacy here at Dashlane.

A Deep Dive into Web Extension Security
A few months back we shared some insights about the security of our web extension and explained our approach to security on the web platform. In this article, we’d like to go one step deeper and help clarify that our web-first experience is much more than a web app, and highlight a few risk scenarios we evaluate […]

Toothbrushes and Digital Hygiene
Do you brush your teeth? Yes, this article is going to be about dental hygiene and toothbrushes… …as a metaphor to talk about digital hygiene. As a kid, you learn from your parents that it is important to brush your teeth twice a day, to floss and avoid eating too much candy. If you do not do […]

Landing Our 5th Patent: Our Latest Patent and How We Leverage Our Intellectual Property
Just this past January, Dashlane was awarded a new patent—our fifth in total—and I thought I would use the occasion to share how patents work in general and how we leverage our intellectual property here at Dashlane.

How We Think About Security at Dashlane
Security is about keeping all of us safe. First and foremost our customers, obviously. But also our employees and our company (including our shareholders). There are 2 additional important considerations related to this part of Dashlane’s mission: Security is hard Let’s start with a given: Security is hard. And perfect security is impossible. One day, […]

The State of Digital Identity
At Spark The Change, a conference in Paris, focused on innovation and changing the world, I shared my view on the State of Digital Identity. Being the CTO of a company like Dashlane gives me a special insight and view on the topic, which I’m excited to share. But first, let me tell you a […]