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7ASecurity Completes Security Audit of Círculo
IOCipher 1.0 community reboot
A Look Back at 2024: F-Droid's Progress and What’s Coming in 2025
Using TLS ECH from Python
The future of our fdroid-compatible app repository
Quick set up guide for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)
DEfO - Developing ECH for OpenSSL (round two)
FIFA2023 Report
Improving website resilience with LibResilient and IPFS
Arti, next-gen Tor on mobile
Steps towards trusted VPNs
Scanning apps, off the record
The Search for Ethical Apps: Let's start with governments
Privacy Preserving Analytics in the Real World: Mailvelope Case Study
Spearphishing for developers
Debian over HTTPS
Implementing TLS Encrypted Client Hello
New insights into clean analytics
Usability: the wonderful, powerful idea that betrayed us
Clean Insights: February 2021 Update on Privacy-Preserving Measurement
New Data Sources: API Key Identifiers and BroadcastReceiver Declarations
εxodus ETIP: The Canonical Database for Tracking Trackers
Distribution in Depth: Mirrors as a Source of Resiliency
Free Software Tooling for Android Feature Extraction
"Features" for Finding Trackers
Figuring Out Crowdsourced Translation of Websites
The Promise and Hazards of COVID Contact Tracing Apps
We Support the Open COVID Pledge
Improving Crowdsourced Translation of Long Form Text
Tracking the Trackers: using machine learning to aid ethical decisions
NetCipher + Conscrypt for the best possible TLS
Trusted Update Channels vs. Scratching Your Itch
Onions on Apples: A New Release of Onion Browser for iOS
IOCipher 64-bit builds
Tor Project: Orfox Paved the Way for Tor Browser on Android
NetCipher update: global, SOCKS, and TLSv1.2
PanicKit 1.0: built-in panic button and full app wipes
Exploring possibilities of Pluggable Transports on Android
Use Onions/HTTPS for software updates
Wind is a Mozilla & National Science Foundation Grand Prize Winner
Our “Wind” project is a Mozilla-NSF challenge finalist!
Orbot: Over 20 Million Served, Ready for the Next Billion
Orbot v16: a whole new look, and easier to use!
No more “Root” features in Orbot… use Orfox & VPN instead!
Ostel.co is permanently offline
Tracking usage without tracking people
Announcing new libraries: F-Droid Update Channels
F-Droid: A new UX 6 years in the making
Announcing the Developer Challenges Survey
Build Android apps with Debian: apt install android-sdk
F-Droid now supports APK Expansion Files aka OBB
Build Your Own App Store: Android Media Distribution for Everyone
How can we learn without watching?
Imagining the challenges of developers in repressive environments
New Partnership with Circle of 6 mobile safety app
Orfox 1.2.1 released
Orfox 1.2: An Overdue Update to Our Privacy-Focused Browser!
OpenArchive: Free & Secure Mobile Media Sharing #DWebSummit
Building the most private app store
PanicKit: making your whole phone respond to a panic button
Good translations are essential to usability
First Reproducible Builds Summit
CipherKit reproducible builds
Orfox: Aspiring to bring Tor Browser to Android
Building a trustworthy app store that respects privacy
Getting Android tools into Debian
Phishing for developers
Complete, reproducible app distribution achieved!
Experimental app to improve privacy in location sharing
First working test of IOCipher for Obj-C
Sharing your location privately
Reducing metadata leakage from software updates
CipherKit updates: IOCipher and CacheWord
Question: central server, federated, or p2p? Answer: all!
Introducing TrustedIntents for Android
New Official Guardian Project app repo for FDroid!
Our first deterministic build: Lil’ Debi 0.4.7
Orbot now at v14.0.0 build 100!
Automatic, private distribution of our test builds
Reset The Net!
Security in a thumb drive: the promise and pain of hardware security modules, take one!
Eric Schmidt Awards Guardian Project a “New Digital Age” Grant
Tweaking HTTPS for Better Security
SQLCipher has 100M+ Mobile Users (Thanks to WeChat!)
Ostel.co secure VoIP network partners with Open Hosting
VoIP security architecture in brief
Turn Your Device Into an App Store
Issues when distributing software
Open Office Hours Every Friday This Fall
Orbot v12 now in beta
Our Newest App: PixelKnot
A Weather Report On Security
Carrier Grade, Verizon and the NSA
The Only Way to Visit Strongbox on a Phone
GnuPG for Android progress: we have an command line app!
Security Awareness Party
Gibberbot v11 is not just secure, its also simple, snappy and super fun!
InformaCam wins Knight News Challenge
Voice over Tor?
From #HOPE9: Your Cell Phone Is Covered in Spiders! – Practical Android Security
Threats and Usability of Secure Voice
A Network Analysis of Encrypted Voice over OSTN
Freebird Flys High
Orbot Data Tax (Updated!)
Auditing Twitter With Orbot
<!--:en-->A Partnership for Open Secure Mobile Messaging between iOS and Android<!--:-->
<!--:en-->OSTN secure VoIP wizard now built into CSipSimple for Android<!--:-->
<!--:en-->Bye, bye, BBM! Facebook Allows Verifiable Encrypted Mobile Messaging for Android and iOS; Mobile Revenue Threatened?<!--:-->
Cross-Domain calling, or “toll-free long distance VoIP”
Singing and Dancing for Encryption
Call My Email
Acrobits Groundwire – OSTN supports iPhone
Adventures in Porting: GnuPG 2.1.x to Android!
February 2012: Project Update
Introducing InformaCam
Thoughts on Mobile Video for Activism
SQLCipher for Android v1 FINAL!
Don’t Get Burned, Anonymize Your Fire
Two years in…
ACLU believes “Software Developers Can Put Privacy First!” (and so do we!)
Announcing ObscuraCam v1 – Enhance Your Visual Privacy!
Lil’ Debi: Easy Installer for Debian on Android
Announcing: SQLCipher for Android, Developer Preview r1
Our Foolish Hackday!
April 26: “Advancing the New Machine” at UC Berkeley
Guardian Project: General Update March 2011
Photos from our January Hackday
Addressing a “Privacy Challenge” with Guardian
SECURED: HTC Wildfires get Guardian
A note on funding and our mention in Wired
Interviewed CHOMP.FM 007 Podcast
Stickers!
Create an encrypted file system on Android with LUKS
Proxy Settings Add-on for Firefox Mobile
Open Video Conference: Panel and Hackday
Orbot Release 1.0 in the Android Market!
Calling all Guardians – Alpha Testers Needed!
How To: Lockdown Your Mobile E-Mail
aPad / iRobot / Moons e7001 Teardown
Tor on a Tablet
Orbot goes Beta
MobileActive Helps Secure Citizen Journalists
Orbot main screen redesign
Orbot: Initial Release (repost)
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IOCipher 1.0 community reboot
Achieve Onion Layers of Security with the Triad of Apple-tizing Apps!
Improving Usability of Tor on Smartphones in Latin America
Privacy Preserving Analytics in the Real World: Mailvelope Case Study
Implementing TLS Encrypted Client Hello
New insights into clean analytics
Usability: the wonderful, powerful idea that betrayed us
Clean Insights: February 2021 Update on Privacy-Preserving Measurement
New Data Sources: API Key Identifiers and BroadcastReceiver Declarations
εxodus ETIP: The Canonical Database for Tracking Trackers
Distribution in Depth: Mirrors as a Source of Resiliency
Managing offline maps with F-Droid and OsmAnd
Easy translation workflows and the risks of translating in the cloud
Free Software Tooling for Android Feature Extraction
"Features" for Finding Trackers
Figuring Out Crowdsourced Translation of Websites
Tracking the Trackers: using machine learning to aid ethical decisions
IOCipher 64-bit builds
Tor Project: Orfox Paved the Way for Tor Browser on Android
NetCipher update: global, SOCKS, and TLSv1.2
PanicKit 1.0: built-in panic button and full app wipes
IOCipher is the antidote to “Man-in-the-Disk” attack
Haven: Building the Most Secure Baby Monitor Ever?
No more “Root” features in Orbot… use Orfox & VPN instead!
Repomaker Usability Trainers Worldwide, June 2017
fdroidserver UX Testing Report
F-Droid User Testing, Round 2
F-Droid Lubbock Report – What We Want to Know
ProofMode critiques and progress
Imagining the challenges of developers in repressive environments
“If This, Then Panic!” Sample Code for Triggering Emergency Alerts
How to Migrate Your Android App’s Signing Key
Hiding Apps in Plain Sight
Turn Your Device Into an App Store
Gibberbot’s “ChatSecure” MakeOver: Almost Done!
Modernizing Expectations for the Nouveau Secure Mobile Messaging Movement
GnuPG for Android progress: we have an command line app!
Lower Bounds of The Narrow Bands
IOCipher beta: easy encrypted file storage for your Android app
report on IOCipher beta dev sprint
Proposal for Secure Connection Notification on Android
Sometimes the best solution is a library, not an app
IOCipher lives! encrypted virtual file system for Android
Cross-Domain calling, or “toll-free long distance VoIP”
Mobile mesh in a real world test
User scenarios to guide our crypto development
Transparent encrypted virtual disks for Android (we call it IOCipher)
Knight News funding of SecureSmartCam = a #WIN for open-source mobile security
Call My Email
On Verifying Identity Using Cryptography
Adventures in Porting: GnuPG 2.1.x to Android!
Our new F-Droid App Repository (out of date!)
ObscuraCam v2 ALPHA (with video!)
How many ways to store 5 numbers?
Free SIP Providers with ZRTP support
Open Source SIP Client for Android
Open Secure Telephony Network
Strong Mobile Passwords with Yubikey USB Token
SQLCipher for Android v1 FINAL!
Progress on Mobile Video Privacy Tools
CACertMan app to address DigiNotar & other bad CA’s
Announcing ObscuraCam v1 – Enhance Your Visual Privacy!
Lil’ Debi: Easy Installer for Debian on Android
Announcing: SQLCipher for Android, Developer Preview r1
Our Foolish Hackday!
Growing Mobile Test Lab and Library
Addressing a “Privacy Challenge” with Guardian
Create an encrypted file system on Android with LUKS
Proxy Settings Add-on for Firefox Mobile
Orbot Update: New Setup Wizard at Startup
aPad / iRobot / Moons e7001 Teardown
Tor on a Tablet
Ushahidi-Linda: “Testimony” + “Protection”
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Repomaker Usability Trainers Worldwide, June 2017
Tracking usage without tracking people
fdroidserver UX Testing Report
F-Droid User Testing, Round 2
F-Droid Lubbock Report – What We Want to Know
Imagining the challenges of developers in repressive environments
HOWTO: get all your Debian packages via Tor Onion Services
How to Migrate Your Android App’s Signing Key
First Reproducible Builds Summit
Orfox: Aspiring to bring Tor Browser to Android
Recent news on Orweb flaws
Improving trust and flexibility in interactions between Android apps
Four Ways InformaCam Powers Mobile Media Verification
Integrating Crypto Identities with Android
Keys, signatures, certificates, verifications, etc. What are all these for?
Turn Your Device Into an App Store
Your own private dropbox with free software
Gibberbot’s “ChatSecure” MakeOver: Almost Done!
Keeping data private means it must be truly deletable!
Jitsi, ostel.co and ISP censorship
Modernizing Expectations for the Nouveau Secure Mobile Messaging Movement
A Weather Report On Security
Carrier Grade, Verizon and the NSA
Gibberbot v11 is not just secure, its also simple, snappy and super fun!
Mumble and the Bandwidth – Anonymous CB radio with Mumble and Tor
Proposal for Secure Connection Notification on Android
ToFU/PoP in your Android App! (a.k.a. extending Orlib to communicate over Tor)
Call My Email
VoIP Survey Results of NGOs, Human Rights Groups and Activists
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Our “Wind” project is a Mozilla-NSF challenge finalist!
Orbot v16: a whole new look, and easier to use!
Haven: Building the Most Secure Baby Monitor Ever?
No more “Root” features in Orbot… use Orfox & VPN instead!
Combating “Fake News” With a Smartphone “Proof Mode”
OpenArchive: Free & Secure Mobile Media Sharing #DWebSummit
Copperhead, Guardian Project and F-Droid Partner to Build Open, Verifiably Secure Mobile Ecosystem
ChatSecure for Android v14 is FINALLY here!
ChatSecure 13.2: Important Beta!
Turn Your Device Into an App Store
ChatSecure v12 Provides Comprehensive Mobile Security and a Whole New Look
Gibberbot’s “ChatSecure” MakeOver: Almost Done!
Our Newest App: PixelKnot
GnuPG for Android progress: we have an command line app!
Gibberbot v11 is not just secure, its also simple, snappy and super fun!
IOCipher beta: easy encrypted file storage for your Android app
Orbot v11 is out!
Our new F-Droid App Repository (out of date!)
SQLCipher for Android v1 FINAL!
Announcing ObscuraCam v1 – Enhance Your Visual Privacy!
Orbot 1.0.5.2 now available
Announcing: SQLCipher for Android, Developer Preview r1
Proxy Mobile Add-on 0.0.7 for Firefox on Android
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IETF119 Conference Report: Monday March 18, 2024
IETF119 Conference Report: Hackathon March 17, 2024
IETF116 Conference Report: Friday March 31, 2023
IETF116 Conference Report: Thursday March 30, 2023
IETF116 Conference Report: Wednesday March 29, 2023
IETF116 Conference Report: Tuesday March 28, 2023
IETF116 Conference Report: Monday March 27, 2023
IETF114 Conference Report: Friday July 29, 2022
IETF114 Conference Report: Thursday July 28, 2022
IETF114 Conference Report: Wednesday July 27, 2022
IETF114 Conference Report: Tuesday July 26, 2022
IETF114 Conference Report: Monday July 25, 2022
IETF114 Hackathon Report: Sunday July 24, 2022
IETF113 Conference Report: Friday March 25, 2022
IETF113 Conference Report: Thursday March 24, 2022
IETF113 Conference Report: Wednesday March 23, 2022
IETF113 Conference Report: Tuesday March 22, 2022
IETF113 Conference Report: Monday March 21, 2022
IETF113 Hackathon Project
IETF: Year End Review 2021
IETF112 - Meeting Update (November 2021)
The IETF and Internet Freedom
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Building a Signing Server
Tracking usage without tracking people
“If This, Then Panic!” Sample Code for Triggering Emergency Alerts
HOWTO: get all your Debian packages via Tor Onion Services
Copperhead, Guardian Project and F-Droid Partner to Build Open, Verifiably Secure Mobile Ecosystem
How to Migrate Your Android App’s Signing Key
Hiding Apps in Plain Sight
Getting keys into your keyring with Gnu Privacy Guard for Android
A tag-team git workflow that incorporates auditing
Your own private dropbox with free software
Setting up your own app store with F-Droid
Security Awareness Party
ToFU/PoP in your Android App! (a.k.a. extending Orlib to communicate over Tor)
<!--:en-->Build your own Open Secure Telephony Network, some assembly required<!--:-->
Orbot Your Twitter!
Announcing ObscuraCam v1 – Enhance Your Visual Privacy!
Create an encrypted file system on Android with LUKS
SECURED: T-Mobile myTouch 4G gets Guardian
How To: Lockdown Your Mobile E-Mail
How To: Setup a Private VOIP Phone System for Android
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Orfox 1.2: An Overdue Update to Our Privacy-Focused Browser!
OpenArchive: Free & Secure Mobile Media Sharing #DWebSummit
Orbot v12 now in beta
Lower Bounds of The Narrow Bands
Orbot Your Twitter!
Don’t Get Burned, Anonymize Your Fire
SECURED: T-Mobile myTouch 4G gets Guardian
How To: Lockdown Your Mobile E-Mail
Beem+Orbot: Mobile Instant Messaging over Tor
Ultimate Droid and Orbot
One Solution for Push-to-Talk
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Tracking usage without tracking people
Orfox 1.2: An Overdue Update to Our Privacy-Focused Browser!
HOWTO: get all your Debian packages via Tor Onion Services
Copperhead, Guardian Project and F-Droid Partner to Build Open, Verifiably Secure Mobile Ecosystem
Orfox: Aspiring to bring Tor Browser to Android
2015 is the Year of Bore-Sec
Recent news on Orweb flaws
Eric Schmidt Awards Guardian Project a “New Digital Age” Grant
Issues when distributing software