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Life & fun · June 27, 2023

Backbone

Mission control for your most sensitive data

Backbone launched on June 27, 2023 with 72 votes, #1,266 of 4,655 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

What it does

Backbone Secrets is the vault for your organization's most sensitive data. Add passwords and files, share them with your co-workers — encrypted every step of the way.

Backbone builds security infrastructure for sensitive data, designed so provider breaches, even ours, expose no plaintext.

Cord is a Rust serialization format for security-sensitive systems where signatures, hashes, cache keys, and protocol decisions need stablefrom backbone.dev

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