Guardian Project Blog

Our first deterministic build: Lil’ Debi 0.4.7

June 9, 2014

We just released Lil’ Debi 0.4.7 into the Play Store and f-droid.org. It is not really different than the 0.4.6 release except in has a new, …

Orbot now at v14.0.0 build 100!

June 7, 2014

The latest Orbot is out soon on Google Play, and by direct download from the link below: Android APK: …

Automatic, private distribution of our test builds

June 6, 2014

One thing we are very lucky to have is a good community of people willing to test out unfinished builds of our software. That is a very valuable …

Reset The Net!

June 4, 2014

We’re making the Internet more secure, by taking part in #ResetTheNet https://resetthenet.org

Security in a thumb drive: the promise and pain of hardware security modules, take one!

March 28, 2014

Hardware Security Modules (aka Smartcards, chipcards, etc) provide a secure way to store and use cryptographic keys, while actually making the whole …

Eric Schmidt Awards Guardian Project a “New Digital Age” Grant

March 10, 2014

An interesting turn of events (which we are very grateful for!) ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Diana Del Olmo, diana@guardianproject.info Nathan Freitas (in …

Tweaking HTTPS for Better Security

February 12, 2014

The HTTPS protocol is based on TLS and SSL, which are standard ways to negotiate encrypted connections. There is a lot of complexity in the protocols …

Improving trust and flexibility in interactions between Android apps

January 21, 2014

Activity1 sending an Intent that either Activity2 or Activity3 can handle. Android provides a flexible system of messaging between apps in the form …

Four Ways InformaCam Powers Mobile Media Verification

January 6, 2014

_Note: A big discussion topic of 2013 was about how hard cryptography and security is for average people, journalists and others. With that in mind, …

Integrating Crypto Identities with Android

December 28, 2013

ver the past couple of years, Android has included a central database for managing information about people, it is known as the ContactsContract …