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Governments from more than 100 countries gather this week in The Hague at the Global Conference on Cyberspace to talk about a free and secure Internet. But a free and secure Internet can never exist as long as these governments continue their mass surveillance practices.

Imagine you're a hosting provider and you want to generate cryptographic keys. Lots of them. On virtual machines. Pretty soon you'll find out that computers are indeed very logical devices, which makes them particularly bad at coming up with random data. And guess what makes or breaks a cryptographic key? That's right: random data. In this post we will show you how we tackled this problem at Greenhost. To clarify how we are working and hopefully to also share some of our knowledge to the wider community."

In December 2014 several employees of Greenhost attended the yearly CCC hacker conference in Hamburg.

On stage both Sacha van Geffen and Jurre van Bergen gave a talk.

You can watch both here on our blog or download other formats from the CCC website.

Tactics in the Long War

by Sacha van Geffen

Now I Sprinkle Thee With Crypto Dust

by Jurre van Bergen

Greenhost has today joined an international campaign to allow anyone in the world to request whether Britain's intelligence agency GCHQ has illegally spied on them.

The platform and campaign has been developed in response to a recent court ruling that GCHQ unlawfully obtained millions of private communications from the NSA up until December 2014. This decision allows not only British citizens, but anyone in the world, to ask GCHQ if their records were unlawfully shared by the NSA.

Since the campaign started, over 10,000 people around the world have signed on to hold GCHQ accountable for illegal...

Today Sourcesûre has launched simultaneously in Paris and Brussels. It's the first French whistle blower website created by a coalition of prominent media companies including Le Monde. Following the Dutch Publeaks.nl, Sourcesûre provides French whistle blowers with a safe and anonymous way to share abuse and malfeasance to the press. Together with Globaleaks, Greenhost helped with the technical development, implementation of the platform and the training of journalists. Greenhost remains involved in the project to ensure the security and stability of the platform.

This article was written by Manuel Beltrán, Luis Rodil-Fernández and Pawel Pokutycki of the Alternative Learning Tank in the Netherlands; it originally appeared on their site. We are happily providing them the space on our blog to share their ideas with our readers.

"I need everybody's ID" she said without a smile. This would be the first of a number of security checks necessary before the visit to the data centre could begin, every security check doubling as a reality check. The idealistic mirage of user-generated content, the friendly face of the web as a public space, exist only behind an electrified fence, permanently watched by a thousand electronic eyes. It feels ironic that the same industry that doesn't hesitate in deploying state-of-the-art surveillance in its own facilities feels victim to state-run surveillance programs aimed at the very data they host.

Despite the decision of the European Court of Justice that the directive to store personal data is invalid, Dutch Minister Opstelten of Justice sees no reason to follow this decision. The data retention law stays effective in the Netherlands.

The Minister argued in an Orwellian statement: > The retention of certain data of all citizens is necessary, since we can not know in advance which stored data belongs to suspect and non-suspect citizens.

The government made it thus very clear that it sees all citizens as potential suspects and not as citizens with basic rights such as privacy, freedom...

The totally new and revamped version of our Service Centre (Cosmos 2.0 ) is ready. Cosmos 2.0 has been rebuild from the ground to make it easier to maintain your website, mail and/or VPS. Commonly used functions are more prominently featured and Cosmos 2.0 is much faster.

Dear State Ambassadors to the EU,

Please make your relevant Ministers aware of this Call to support net neutrality rules in the proposed Telecommunications Single Market Regulation.

We understand that you are currently involved in the Council of Ministers discussions on the proposed European Telecommunications Single Market Regulation. We, the undersigned organisations, are committed to an open, transparent and secure Internet and would like to call on you to support strong open Internet provisions as part of this proposal.

The open nature of the Internet is a key driver for innovation and...

Seven internet service and communications providers from around the world filed a legal complaint today calling for an end to GCHQ's attacking and exploitation of network infrastructure in order to unlawfully gain access to potentially millions of people's private communications.

The complaint, filed by Riseup (US), GreenNet (UK), Greenhost (Netherlands), Mango (Zimbabwe), Jinbonet (Korea), May First/People Link (US), and the Chaos Computer Club (Germany), along with Privacy International, is the first time that internet and communication providers have taken collective action against GCHQ's targeting, attacking and exploitation of networks maintaining communications infrastructure.