Guardian Project Blog

OpenArchive: Free & Secure Mobile Media Sharing #DWebSummit

June 7, 2016

I am excited to share another new “mini app” effort we have joined up with, as part of work we are doing to create simple, focused tools that solve a …

Building the most private app store

June 2, 2016

App stores can work well without any tracking at all Attackers are increasingly seeing app stores as a prime attack vector, whether it is aimed at the …

Data Usage and Protection Policies

May 4, 2016

At a high level, it is easy say that “we know nothing”. We do not log data or include analytics in our websites or applications. When we …

Copperhead, Guardian Project and F-Droid Partner to Build Open, Verifiably Secure Mobile Ecosystem

March 28, 2016

Three open-source projects haved joined together to announce a new partnership to create an open, verifiably secure mobile ecosystem of software, …

PanicKit: making your whole phone respond to a panic button

January 12, 2016

Our mobile devices do so many things for us, making it easy to communicate with people in all manners while giving us access to all sorts of …

How to Migrate Your Android App’s Signing Key

December 29, 2015

It is time to update to a stronger signing key for your Android app! The old default RSA 1024-bit key is weak and officially deprecated. What? The …

Good translations are essential to usability

December 9, 2015

All too often, translation of an app are treated as an afterthought. It is not something that the app developers see, since they create the software …

First Reproducible Builds Summit

December 9, 2015

I was just in Athens for the “Reproducible Builds Summit“, an Aspiration-run meeting focused on the issues of getting all software builds to be …

CipherKit reproducible builds

September 21, 2015

We have been on a kick recently with making our build process support “reproducible builds” aka “deterministic builds”. What is this reproducible …

Orfox: Aspiring to bring Tor Browser to Android

June 30, 2015

Update 24 September, 2015: Orfox BETA is now on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.orfox In the summer of …