Encryption

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 …

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 …

Your own private dropbox with free software

November 12, 2013

There are lots of file storage and sharing software packages out there that make it easy for a group of people to share files. Dropbox is perhaps the …

Issues when distributing software

October 31, 2013

There is currently a discussion underway on the Debian-security list about adding TLS and Tor functionality to the official repositories (repos) of …

Keeping data private means it must be truly deletable!

August 23, 2013

There are lots of apps these days that promise to keep your data secure, and even some that promise to wipe away private information mere seconds or …

Modernizing Expectations for the Nouveau Secure Mobile Messaging Movement

July 16, 2013

The tl;dr of this lengthy (tho entertaining and immensely important!) post is this: Stopping with “We support OTR” or “We support PGP” is not enough …

GnuPG for Android progress: we have an command line app!

May 9, 2013

This alpha release of our command-line developer tool brings GnuPG to Android for the first time! GNU Privacy Guard Command-Line (gpgcli) gives you …

IOCipher beta: easy encrypted file storage for your Android app

February 7, 2013

At long last, we are proud to announce the first beta release of IOCipher, an easy framework for providing virtual encrypted disks for Android apps. …

report on IOCipher beta dev sprint

January 31, 2013

We are just wrapping up an intensive dev sprint on IOCipher in order to get the first real beta release out, and it has been a wonderfully productive …

Sometimes the best solution is a library, not an app

August 27, 2012

Our general approach to software development starts with surveying existing solutions that are available and in use, to see if there is already enough …