About

Vision

Peergos is the private web: a place where you own your data, decide where it is kept, and choose who can see it.

Web apps should be secure by default and unable to track you. You should be able to say exactly what each one is allowed to see. You should not have to log in to an app ever again. Privacy is a fundamental human right, and we want using the internet to respect that right without anyone having to think about it.

Underneath, Peergos is a decentralised protocol and an open-source platform for storage, social media and applications. It was designed from the ground up around post-quantum end-to-end encryption and fine grained access control, which is what puts you rather than a server in charge of your own files.

Where the money comes from

Peergos is a non-profit. What it costs to run is covered by the people who use it, through subscriptions and donations, with grants from organisations like NLnet and the Next Generation Internet programme paying for particular pieces of work, such as our security audits.

No investors, no debt, no advertising, and no free tier that paying customers have to subsidise. Nobody upstream of us needs us to grow at your expense. What it costs.

Team

Ian

Ian did his DPhil in Particle Physics at Oxford University, during which he mainly worked on a new x86 system emulator, JPC. After his doctorate he was the lead developer on an x86 Linux process emulator which was able to achieve 80% native speed on x86 hardware. As well as emulation, he is passionate about distributed systems and cryptography, which is in his blood as his grandfather worked at Bletchley park during WWII. Both of these are in abundance in Peergos.

Chris

Chris also has a DPhil in Particle Physics from Oxford University and used to work on the Large Hadron Collider before turning his focus to software engineering. He has written an ACID compliant distributed noSQL database with better performance than Cassandra.

Kevin

Kevin ported the world's first full x86 system emulator to run in javascript. He followed this up with the first javascript port of a fast DOS emulator and more recently contributed to a Linux emulator capable of running WINE in a web browser.

Jonathan

Jonathan completed his PhD in Applied Probability at the University of Melbourne. He worked in various quantitative roles in banking in Australia and the UK before changing industries to become a software engineer and build enterprise data science products.

Joanna

Joanna is an award-winning science communicator with a DPhil in Zoology from Oxford University. She won FameLab Poland and "I'm a Scientist, get me out of here!", presented for the Discovery Channel and spoken at TEDx. She splits her time between academia, popular science writing and public engagement.