Security

IOCipher 1.0 community reboot

February 1, 2025

IOCipher update to version 1.0 We are thrilled to announce that a community contributor has picked up maintaining a fork of IOCipher and updated to …

F-Droid's Community-controlled Backup Ceremony

July 15, 2023

(Guest post from F-Droid, originally on f-droid.org) Seven core contributors and one board member met in Scotland, the birthplace of F-Droid, for the …

EU should not require sharing unpatched vulnerabilities

June 11, 2023

We, the undersigned organisations, write to express our concern with vulnerability disclosure requirements under the proposed Cyber Resilience Act …

Steps towards trusted VPNs

February 28, 2023

VPNs have become quite popular in recent years for a number of reasons, and more and more they are being touted as a privacy tool. The question is …

Spearphishing for developers

February 23, 2022

I received an interesting email that points to a new direction in targeting developers to exploit them. This email is a reply to a message that I …

Onion Browser Release 2.6 Tutorial

June 2, 2020

In this tutorial we’re going to talk about the best practices to browse the web securely on iOS using Onion Browser Release 2.6 and the Tor …

NetCipher + Conscrypt for the best possible TLS

December 17, 2019

A new NetCipher library has recently been merged: netcipher-conscrypt. In the same vein as the other NetCipher libraries, netcipher-conscrypt wraps …

Trusted Update Channels vs. Scratching Your Itch

December 2, 2019

One of the great things about free software is that people can easily take a functional program or library and customize it as they see fit. Anyone …

IOCipher 64-bit builds

October 7, 2019

IOCipher v0.5 includes fulil 64-bit support and works with the latest SQLCipher versions. This means that the minimum supported SDK version had to be …

Tor Project: Orfox Paved the Way for Tor Browser on Android

September 3, 2019

Last month, we tagged the final release of Orfox, an important milestone for us in our work on Tor. Today, we pushed this final build out to all the …