Guardian Project Blog

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 …

Keys, signatures, certificates, verifications, etc. What are all these for?

December 12, 2013

For the past two years, we have been thinking about how to make it easier for anyone to achieve private communications. One particular focus has been …

SQLCipher has 100M+ Mobile Users (Thanks to WeChat!)

December 10, 2013

(Note: Originally this post had a title claiming 300 Million WeChat users… that would have included iOS and Android, and we don’t know if the WeChat …

Getting keys into your keyring with Gnu Privacy Guard for Android

December 6, 2013

Now that you can have a full GnuPG on your Android device with Gnu Privacy Guard for Android, the next step is getting keys you need onto your device …