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April 10, 2012

While we think that a secure, privacy-enhanced mobile phone is a good thing for just about anybody going about their daily lives, we like to also …

Transparent encrypted virtual disks for Android (we call it IOCipher)

April 3, 2012

When using phones, laptops, computers, etc. it feels like a private experience, as if our screen was the same as a piece of paper, and when that paper …

Knight News funding of SecureSmartCam = a #WIN for open-source mobile security

March 29, 2012

Along with our partner WITNESS, we’ve entered our SecureSmartCam project into the Knight News Challenge, and we need your support to get to the next …

Call My Email

March 22, 2012

What if you could call me directly through my email? No exchanging of phone numbers or searching for handles on Skype. Just plain and simple email. …

Acrobits Groundwire – OSTN supports iPhone

March 21, 2012

The Guardian Project develops open source software primarily for the Android platform but we strive for security by design to be a part of all …

On Verifying Identity Using Cryptography

March 19, 2012

One of the most important uses of cryptography these days is verifying the identity of the other side of a digital conversation. That conversation …

Adventures in Porting: GnuPG 2.1.x to Android!

March 15, 2012

PGP started with Phil Zimmerman’s Pretty Good Privacy, which is now turned into an open IETF standard known as OpenPGP. These days, the reference …

Our new F-Droid App Repository (out of date!)

March 15, 2012

Update: this blog post has been changed to reference our new FDroid repository at https://guardianproject.info/fdroid. If you are still using the old …

VoIP Survey Results of NGOs, Human Rights Groups and Activists

March 7, 2012

In November 2011, 25 individuals were surveyed using an online form, representing typical end-users, global journalists, activist and human rights …

ObscuraCam v2 ALPHA (with video!)

March 2, 2012

We’ve been making exciting progress with our work on ObscuraCam, part of the SecureSmartCam project with our partner WITNESS. The biggest jump forward …