Android

Integrating Crypto Identities with Android

December 28, 2013

ver the past couple of years, Android has included a central database for managing information about people, it is known as the ContactsContract …

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 …

Turn Your Device Into an App Store

November 18, 2013

As we’ve touched upon in previous blog posts the Google Play model of application distribution has some disadvantages. Google does not make the Play …

Setting up your own app store with F-Droid

November 5, 2013

(This blog post as now been cooked into an updated HOWTO) The Google Play Store for Android is not available in all parts of the world, US law …

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 …

The Only Way to Visit Strongbox on a Phone

May 16, 2013

The New Yorker magazine just launched Strongbox, a whistleblower submission system that’s hosted on a hidden website. There’s only one way to access …

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 …

Proposal for Secure Connection Notification on Android

November 15, 2012

A major problem of mobile applications being increasingly used over web-based applications, is that there is no standard established for notifying the …