The "Vostok" browser has been included in the register of domestic software. It is being developed by "Borey Tekhnologii" and "Advilabs-Rus" – the product is designed for both companies and ordinary users.
The main feature is the simultaneous support of Russian cryptographic algorithms and the international TLS protocol. According to the authors' idea, this will allow users to access both government resources and corporate websites with domestic certificates, as well as foreign pages, without additional actions.
This problem is familiar to users of many Chromium-based browsers: they do not always trust Russian certification authorities and may display warnings when opening certain sites. "Vostok" is designed to solve this "out of the box".
The browser is built on open-source Firefox, not Chromium. The developers claim that they have reassembled the libraries used and removed unnecessary test code.
A mobile version of "Vostok" is currently being prepared, and a build for Windows should appear later. The company calls it the first general-purpose browser based on Firefox with simultaneous support for Russian and international encryption standards.
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