Guardian Project Blog

2015 is the Year of Bore-Sec

January 2, 2015

Over the last few months, the Guardian Project team has been thinking about how to approach the next five years of our work. An idea of “security so …

Reducing metadata leakage from software updates

October 16, 2014

Update: now you can do this with Tor Onion Services Many software update systems use code signing to ensure that only the correct software is …

CipherKit updates: IOCipher and CacheWord

September 26, 2014

We’ve been on a big kick recently, updating the newest members of our CipherKit family of frameworks: IOCipher and CacheWord. There also are is a …

Question: central server, federated, or p2p? Answer: all!

September 18, 2014

There are many ideas of core architectures for providing digital services, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. I break it down along the …

ChatSecure for Android v14 is FINALLY here!

September 10, 2014

I am so happy to announce that ChatSecure for Android v14 IS FINALLY HERE! BUT This is our first “release candidate” of v14 for public use, and while …

ChatSecure 13.2: Important Beta!

August 5, 2014

Today is the first public beta of ChatSecure v13.2, an important update of the user interface, networking code, and overall stability. We’ve spent the …

Introducing TrustedIntents for Android

July 30, 2014

Following up on our research on secure Intent interactions, we are now announcing the first working version of the TrustedIntents library for Android. …

New Official Guardian Project app repo for FDroid!

June 30, 2014

We now have an official FDroid app repository that is available via three separate methods, to guarantee access to a trusted distribution channel …

Recent news on Orweb flaws

June 30, 2014

August 2014: New browser development news here, including Orfox, our Firefox-based browser solution: …

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, …