Privacy

7ASecurity Completes Security Audit of Círculo

March 17, 2025

Over the last six months, we’ve been working with 7ASecurity through support from the Open Technology Fund’s Security Safety Audits, to complete an …

A Look Back at 2024: F-Droid's Progress and What’s Coming in 2025

January 21, 2025

With 2024 now behind us, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the growth and achievements we accomplished as a community last year, and celebrate …

Using TLS ECH from Python

January 10, 2025

At first, the idea of encrypting more of the metadata found inside the initial packet (the “ClientHello”) of a TLS connection may seem …

IETF119 Conference Report: Monday March 18, 2024

March 18, 2024

It’s Opening Day of the 119th IETF meeting in Brisbane Australia. This post commences a daily rundown of privacy and Internet Freedom activities …

IETF119 Conference Report: Hackathon March 17, 2024

March 17, 2024

Hackathon Weekend at the 119th IETF meeting in Brisbane Australia. This post commences a daily rundown of privacy and Internet Freedom activities at …

The future of our fdroid-compatible app repository

February 24, 2024

Guardian Project has been running its own fdroid-compatible app repository since 2012. Up until now, we worked to ensure that our repository had the …

Quick set up guide for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)

November 10, 2023

The Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) mechanism draft-spec is a way to plug a few privacy-holes that remain in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol …

DEfO - Developing ECH for OpenSSL (round two)

November 9, 2023

Encrypted ClientHello (ECH) plugs a privacy-hole in TLS, hiding previously visible details from network observers. The most important being the name …

IETF116 Conference Report: Friday March 31, 2023

April 4, 2023

Day Five of the 116th IETF meeting in Yokohama Japan. For the rundown on Day Four, see my daily report. With a lot of focus on privacy with respect to …

IETF116 Conference Report: Thursday March 30, 2023

March 30, 2023

Day Four of the 116th IETF meeting in Yokohama Japan. For the rundown on Day Three, see my daily report. The IETF is getting serious about …