Guardian Project Blog

Exploring possibilities of Pluggable Transports on Android

April 16, 2019

Pluggable Transports (PT) give software developers the means to establishing reliable connections in DPI-filtered network scenarios. A variety of …

Use Onions/HTTPS for software updates

January 23, 2019

There is a new vulnerability in Debian’s apt that allows anything that can Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) your traffic to get root on your Debian/Ubuntu/etc …

Wind is a Mozilla & National Science Foundation Grand Prize Winner

September 26, 2018

On August 14th, members of the Guardian Project team traveled to Mountain View to compete in the final round of the Wireless Innovation for a …

IOCipher is the antidote to “Man-in-the-Disk” attack

August 17, 2018

Recently, at DEFCON 2018, researchers at Check Point announced a new kind of attack made possible by the way many Android apps are implemented. In …

Our “Wind” project is a Mozilla-NSF challenge finalist!

July 20, 2018

For the last few years, we’ve been working on the Wind network concept, as a nearby, local, off-grid companion, or alternative, to the Web. This year, …

Orbot: Over 20 Million Served, Ready for the Next Billion

May 16, 2018

We recently published the latest release of Orbot (16.0.2!), and as usual, we make it available via Google Play, as well F-Droid, and through direct …

Orbot v16: a whole new look, and easier to use!

January 5, 2018

Orbot: Tor for Android has a new release (tag and changelog), with a major update to the user experience and interface. This is the 16th major release …

Haven: Building the Most Secure Baby Monitor Ever?

December 22, 2017

About eight months ago, friends at the Freedom of the Press Foundation reached out to us, to see if we were interested in prototyping an idea they had …

Building a Signing Server

December 18, 2017

The Android APK signing model sets the expectation that the signing key will be the same for the entire lifetime of the app. That can be seen in the …

No more “Root” features in Orbot… use Orfox & VPN instead!

October 27, 2017

Since I first announced the available of Orbot: Tor for Android about 8 years ago (wow!), myself and others have been working on various methods in …