Guardian Project Blog

Tracking the Trackers: using machine learning to aid ethical decisions

January 16, 2020

F-Droid is a free software community app store that has been working since 2010 to make all forms of tracking and advertising visible to users. It has …

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 …

Onions on Apples: A New Release of Onion Browser for iOS

October 8, 2019

During 2019, Guardian Project has been working with developer Mike Tigas to make improvements to his Tor-enabled web browser for iOS, Onion Browser. …

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 …

NetCipher update: global, SOCKS, and TLSv1.2

June 25, 2019

NetCipher has been relatively quiet in recent years, because it kept on working, doing it was doing. Now, we have had some recent discoveries about …

PanicKit 1.0: built-in panic button and full app wipes

June 4, 2019

Panic Kit is 1.0! After over three years of use, it is time to call this stable and ready for widespread use. Built-in panic button This round of work …

Exploring possibilities of Pluggable Transports on Android

April 16, 2019

Pluggable Transports (PT) give software developers the means to establishing reliable connections in DPI-filtered network scenarios. A variety of …

Use Onions/HTTPS for software updates

January 23, 2019

There is a new vulnerability in Debian’s apt that allows anything that can Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) your traffic to get root on your Debian/Ubuntu/etc …