February 11, 2015
With F-Droid, we have been working towards getting a complete app distribution channel that is able to reproducibly build each Android app from …
October 16, 2014
Update: now you can do this with Tor Onion Services Many software update systems use code signing to ensure that only the correct software is …
September 26, 2014
We’ve been on a big kick recently, updating the newest members of our CipherKit family of frameworks: IOCipher and CacheWord. There also are is a …
September 18, 2014
There are many ideas of core architectures for providing digital services, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. I break it down along the …
June 30, 2014
We now have an official FDroid app repository that is available via three separate methods, to guarantee access to a trusted distribution channel …
June 9, 2014
We just released Lil’ Debi 0.4.7 into the Play Store and f-droid.org. It is not really different than the 0.4.6 release except in has a new, …
June 6, 2014
One thing we are very lucky to have is a good community of people willing to test out unfinished builds of our software. That is a very valuable …
March 28, 2014
Hardware Security Modules (aka Smartcards, chipcards, etc) provide a secure way to store and use cryptographic keys, while actually making the whole …
February 12, 2014
The HTTPS protocol is based on TLS and SSL, which are standard ways to negotiate encrypted connections. There is a lot of complexity in the protocols …
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 …