Guardian Project Blog

Singing and Dancing for Encryption

April 19, 2012

If you see me dancing or singing with my phone in my hand, I may not just be having a great time, but also creating an encryption key. Part of the …

User scenarios to guide our crypto development

April 14, 2012

At Guardian Project, we find user-centered development to be essential to producing useful software that addresses real world needs. To drive this, we …

How We Help

April 10, 2012

While we think that a secure, privacy-enhanced mobile phone is a good thing for just about anybody going about their daily lives, we like to also …

Transparent encrypted virtual disks for Android (we call it IOCipher)

April 3, 2012

When using phones, laptops, computers, etc. it feels like a private experience, as if our screen was the same as a piece of paper, and when that paper …

Knight News funding of SecureSmartCam = a #WIN for open-source mobile security

March 29, 2012

Along with our partner WITNESS, we’ve entered our SecureSmartCam project into the Knight News Challenge, and we need your support to get to the next …

Call My Email

March 22, 2012

What if you could call me directly through my email? No exchanging of phone numbers or searching for handles on Skype. Just plain and simple email. …

Acrobits Groundwire – OSTN supports iPhone

March 21, 2012

The Guardian Project develops open source software primarily for the Android platform but we strive for security by design to be a part of all …

On Verifying Identity Using Cryptography

March 19, 2012

One of the most important uses of cryptography these days is verifying the identity of the other side of a digital conversation. That conversation …

Adventures in Porting: GnuPG 2.1.x to Android!

March 15, 2012

PGP started with Phil Zimmerman’s Pretty Good Privacy, which is now turned into an open IETF standard known as OpenPGP. These days, the reference …

Our new F-Droid App Repository (out of date!)

March 15, 2012

Update: this blog post has been changed to reference our new FDroid repository at https://guardianproject.info/fdroid. If you are still using the old …