New Release

Our flagship app, Orbot: Tor on Android, has been updated to version 1.0.5.2. It is available in the Android Market, or through direct download from the Tor Project’s website. This release fixes a number of long standing bigs, includes the latest and greatest release of Tor itself, cleans up the user interface a bit, and adds some new advanced options (you can specify your exit node country!). It also fixes an issue with our “Tor Everything” capability, that allowed some Android system network traffic to leak and bypass the Tor routing. [Read More]

After some major breakthroughs during last week’s development sprint, we’re extremely excited to announce SQLCipher for Android, Developer Preview r1. SQLCipher is an SQLite extension that provides transparent 256-bit AES encryption of database files. To date, it has been open-sourced, sponsored and maintained by Zetetic LLC, and we are glad to be able to extend their efforts to a new mobile platform. In the mobile space, SQLCipher has enjoyed widespread use in Apple’s iOS, as well as Nokia / QT for quite some time. [Read More]

We’ve updated our Proxy Mobile add-on for Firefox on Android that allows user to configure their proxy settings. We first released this back in November of last year, and have done our best to keep up with all the various beta updates of the browser. There are no features in this release, just a few small changes to make sure everything is running smoothly out there. To install the add-on, just search for “Proxy” from the add-on search menu within the Firefox settings screen. [Read More]