September 2018 Update!
Since 2015, Orfox has been the only mobile app recommended by the Tor Project to utilize the privacy protections of Tor on Android. The Tor Project has launched an official browser, Tor Browser for Android, now in its alpha release. Orfox will be sunsetted by early 2019 when the stable Tor Browser for Android comes out. To experience real private browsing without tracking, surveillance, or censorship, download Tor Browser for Android from Google Play here: https://play.
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CameraV: Secure Verifiable Photo & Video Camera
THIS PROJECT IS NO LONGER ACTIVE - Please visit [ProofMode.org][https://proofmode.org] for our latest work in verifiable media capture.
CameraV is the easiest way to capture and share verifiable photos and video proof on a smartphone or tablet, all the while keeping it entirely secure and private. This is the official app from the InformaCam project, a partnership between the Guardian Project and WITNESS.
CameraV is easy to learn and simple to use (and insanely secure & powerful under the covers…).
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Courier: Secure News reader
★★★ BETA: THIS IS A BETA RELEASE…. PLEASE REPORT BUGS HERE or GIVE US SOME FEEDBACK★★★
**Courier is a mobile news reader with enhanced security features, offline reading and device-to-device sharing capability. We’ve designed it to be fast and light on slow networks and secured from device and network monitoring.
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Download: Direct APK File or Google Play
Source Code: Courier App or Secure Reader Library (Make Your Own Reader!
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KeySync: Syncing Trusted Identities
Privacy and security software like OTR encryption for chat and GnuPG for email and files all create digital identities that we can mark as trusted through a verification process. When using this software, each app needs completely new security identities that are separate from any existing identities used by the other apps. Then again, mobile software needs it own versions of these identity files. When setting up ChatSecure on a mobile device, all of the trust information from existing chat apps like Adium or Pidgin also needs to be converted and transferred so that ChatSecure has the same trusted identities.
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Weather Repo
The Weather Repo: A New Take On The Old App Store 01 Why It’s Needed Many groups ask whether the apps they're using are "safe". While it's hard for us to respond without knowing the specific context and doing a threat analysis, there are some short cuts. If the app is sending information in clear text, probably not. Who wants to send their data in the open?
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Pixelknot: Hidden Messages
What is Pixelknot? Play Store Pixelknot is an Android application that allows users to hide short text-based messages in photographs and share them across trusted channels.
Have a secret that you want to share? Why not hide it in a picture? With PixelKnot, only your friends with the secret password can unlock your special message. Everyone else just sees a pretty picture. It’s a fun and easy way to share hidden messages without anyone knowing.
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Tutorials
Security doesn’t have to be hard. Here are a few videos that’ll make using our apps easier (and more awesome).
Interactive
Videos
Orbot: Mobile Anonymity + Circumvention
Gibberbot: Secure Instant Messaging
Ostel: Encrypted Phone Calls
FFMPEG: Media Privacy Framework
ffmpeg is a popular, widespread framework for transcoding and filtering digital videos. On Android, it has a simple Java API. Our version includes filters for redaction and pixelization of video and audio, which we hope will become standard features for any app that supports on device video processing.
It has been essential to our apps ObscuraCam, InformaCam, and Murrow/StoryMaker. We are working to make it dead simple for developers to build their own apps on it.
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Ostel: Encrypted Phone Calls
Ostel: Encrypted Phone Calls
A tool for having end-to-end encrypted phone calls. This is a public testbed of the Open Secure Telephony Network (OSTN) project, with the goal of promoting the use of free, open protocols, standards and software, to power end-to-end secure voice communications on mobile devices, as well as with desktop computers.
August 2017: Ostel is permanently offline. Learn more here: https://guardianproject.info/2017/08/10/ostel.co-is-permanently-offline/ **Open Secure Telephony Find out more on our Wiki.
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Developer Square
NO LONGER MAINTAINED
Developer Square is our public community site for sharing, discussing, connect and learning. The main DevSq.net page offers an index of the content and resources we are promoting and sharing, while the “Talk” site (https://talk.developersquare.net) is a full fledged community discussion site focused on open-source, mobile app development.
GnuPG: OpenPGP Encryption
NO LONGER MAINTAINED
This project is UNMAINTAINED, we recommend OpenKeychain instead. The core porting work has all be included upstream in the official GnuPG source repositories. The Android app needs a new maintainer. This could be you! Email us at support@guardianproject.info
Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) for Android brings the widespread standard in OpenPGP encryption to Android. GnuPG provides solid encryption for keeping emails and files private, and for verifying that emails and files are who you think they are.
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InformaCam: Verified Mobile Media
We’ve launched CameraV, the first public InformaCam App! Click the image below to learn more and get the app…
A project funded by the Knight News Challenge
There is currently a deluge of media coming from the world’s mobile devices for potential use as evidence or trusted sources for journalists. WITNESS and the Guardian Project seek to provide a mechanism through InformaCam to verify and authenticate this footage.
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Lil' Debi: Mobile Debian Installer
NO LONGER MAINTAINED
Have an Android phone and want an easy Debian chroot running that you can trust? Install Lil’ Debi, and you can have a Debian install running with a single click of a button. It builds up a whole Debian chroot on your phone entirely using debootstrap. You choose the release, mirror, and size of the disk image, and away it goes. It could take up to an hour on a slow device, then its done.
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Hardware Guide
January 2013: We recognize this page is quite out of date and are working to update it.
While we don’t (yet) produce our own hardware, we do offer custom configured versions of off-the-shelf devices. We’re also often asked “which phone should I get?” or “which carrier should I choose?”, so we decided to gather that information here for you.
If you would like more information on our custom configured Guardian devices, please contact us.
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LUKS: Disk Encryption
If you are looking for the homepage for LUKS, you can find it here: https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/
We are not the creators or maintainers of LUKS. We simply got it working on Android a long, long time ago!
LUKS is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a standard on-disk-format, it does not only facilitate compatibility among distributions, but also provides secure management of multiple user passwords. In contrast to existing solution, LUKS stores all setup necessary setup information in the partition header, enabling the user to transport or migrate his data seamlessly.
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Firefox Mobile: Privacy Enhanced
Fall 2016: We no longer promote the user of Firefox with add-ons, as the solution can be insecure still and easily misconfigured.
Please use our new Orfox browser for Android, based on Tor Browser.
The latest releases of
Firefox on Android are proving to be very usable, stable and an increasingly viable alternative to the built-in webkit browser. However, it unfortunately lacks the ability to manually configure proxy settings through any sort of standard user interface.
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OnionKit for Android
https://github.com/guardianproject/onionkit This is an Android Library Project that provides multiple means to improve network security in mobile applications. The “Onion” name refers to not only the Onion Routing concept used by Tor (which provides anonymity and resistance to traffic surveillance), but also the idea of multiple layers of security that any application should utilize.
More specifically this library provides:
StrongTrustManager: a robust implementation of an TLS/SSL certificate verifier, that can be customized with any set of certificate authorities Proxied Connection Support: HTTP and SOCKS proxy connection support for HTTP and HTTP/S traffic through specific configuration of the Apache HTTPClient library OrbotHelper: a utility class to support application integration with Orbot: Tor for Android.
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Orweb: Private Web Browser
Our new Orfox browser is now released and makes Orweb obsolete. There are now three new options for you to browser easily through Tor with Orbot:
1) Use Orfox, the NEW browser for Orbot based on Tor Browser and Firefox, that is currently in stable BETA: https://guardianproject.info/apps/orfox
2) Use Orbot’s VPN mode feature to proxy any app through Tor. WARNING: This does not make you anonymous, but does help you get through firewalls, filters and other network troubles that may be blocking access to a website or app.
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Orbot: Tor for Android
What is Orbot? Orbot is a free proxy app that empowers other apps to use the internet more securely. Orbot uses Tor to encrypt your Internet traffic and then hides it by bouncing through a series of computers around the world. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.
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Archived Apps
These are all totally unmaintained and just listed here for the record.
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Posted on March 19, 2013 (Last modified on December 2, 2016) GitHub - Blog Posts - website img { float: left; margin-right: 15px; } Privacy-enhanced browser
Posted on October 22, 2012 (Last modified on November 26, 2015) GitHub - Blog Posts - website Orweb is a companion browser to https://f-droid.
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