Re: [guardian-dev] deterministic, repeatable build of LilDebi

2014-04-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On 04/24/2014 04:45 PM, Michael Rogers wrote: > On 23/04/14 20:45, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> That looks like the final detail! I'm even getting the exact same >> META-INF/MANIFEST.MF, only the two signature files are different. >> They also have the exact sa

Re: [guardian-dev] deterministic, repeatable build of LilDebi

2014-04-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On 04/24/2014 08:03 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > > On April 24, 2014 7:22:50 PM EDT, Hans-Christoph Steiner > wrote: >> >> >> On 04/24/2014 04:45 PM, Michael Rogers wrote: >>> On 23/04/14 20:45, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>>> That

[guardian-dev] Stripe Open-Source Retreat Grant

2014-04-26 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
A friend just forwarded this to me. For anyone in the Bay Area wanting to work on free software out of Stripe' SF office, and get some money to boot, apply by May 31st. Seems like Guardian Project related stuff might fit, since Stripe does mobile payments. https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-open-sou

[guardian-dev] ACRA for crash reports with a lot less tracking?

2014-05-01 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I just stumbled upon http://acra.ch/, its a free software framework for getting crash reports from Android apps. It supports multiple backends, like Bugsense and Hockeyapp. It would be nice to add Tor and Redmine support, and have it set up to submit to our issue tracker :) Anyone know anything

Re: [guardian-dev] PGP supported in Android Email app

2014-05-02 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I couldn't get that APK to download, anyone else? Can it be posted elsewhere? You might be able to see some interesting links by uploading it to https://androidobservatory.org/ .hc On 05/01/2014 09:25 PM, AntiTree wrote: > This is SecEmail_j from a Samsung S4 that occupies the > "com.android.em

[guardian-dev] FDroid release with local app store and swapping (part of our Bazaar project)

2014-05-08 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
As part of our Bazaar project, we have been working on ways to enable all methods of decentralized app distribution, and also experimenting with incorporating security auditing as part of that process. The goal is to make a very flexible and secure app store with decentralized trust. This phase

[guardian-dev] new Android signing key

2014-05-14 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
We finally have a new signing key for our official Android releases. We had to make a new one because the current one is using 1024-bit RSA, like the large majority of Android signing keys. RSA 1024-bit is considering deprecated, so we are now signing all new apps with our new 4096-bit signing

Re: [guardian-dev] new Android signing key

2014-05-27 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On 05/23/2014 05:16 AM, Michael Rogers wrote: > On 14/05/14 20:20, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> We finally have a new signing key for our official Android >> releases. We had to make a new one because the current one is >> using 1024-bit RSA, like the large majori

Re: [guardian-dev] On mobile security

2014-06-03 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Nice overview of the issues. You might want to look into Omnirom's nice physical access protection feature. Basically, if the screen is locked and the phone detects any kind of adb activity on the USB port, it will shut itself down. adb is what is used to get data off of Android phones, so this

Re: [guardian-dev] status of Guardian's OpenSSL for Android

2014-06-06 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
How about deleting all the code in the repo and leave a README.md with a quick instructions on how to build the android project? That repo has a lot of forks, so it would be a good way to spread the word. .hc On 06/06/2014 11:39 AM, Nathan Freitas wrote: > We should take it down. You can easily

Re: [guardian-dev] fast company inquiry

2014-06-06 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
In case anyone is interested, Nathan and I both responded and were quoted. I think its a good article, so I'm posting it here: https://www.fastcolabs.com/3031325/why-we-must-teach-ethics-along-with-programming .hc On 05/30/2014 12:28 PM, Joshua Rivera wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm a reporter for

[guardian-dev] Automatic, private distribution of our test builds

2014-06-06 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I just set up the first stab at an automatic way to get test builds of our apps based on FDroid. Testing is an extremely valuable contribution to the process of making good software, so we want to make that process as easy and private as possible. The combination of FDroid an this feed will make

[guardian-dev] renamed SecureSmartCam git repo to ObscuraCam

2014-06-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Originally, the SecureSmartCam git repo was the center of a bunch of camera-related work, but it has been only ObscuraCam for a long time now, so I've renamed that git repo to ObscuraCam: https://github.com/guardianproject/ObscuraCam The old name will continue to work as a redirect: https://git

[guardian-dev] merging ffmpeg work upstream (Storymaker/InformaCam)

2014-06-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
We've done some nice work on ffmpeg, but it has languished in our own repos, so now it has bit-rotted and is far from working on recent versions of ffmpeg. That leaves us stuck on old versions of ffmpeg, and also in charge of maintaining our version of ffmpeg. Given that there is new StoryMaker a

[guardian-dev] orbot proxying OAuth connections

2014-06-12 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I'm working on getting the Tomdroid note taking app to support syncing via .onion addresses. It users Apache HTTP Client for the connections. I was able to set the HTTP proxy for the httpclient object that accesses the service itself, but I was not able to get the OAuth stuff working with an htt

Re: [guardian-dev] merging ffmpeg work upstream (Storymaker/InformaCam)

2014-06-16 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
nitely on stability and security fundamentals, the broader work > plan is going to firm up once we have the needs assessment results > back from our partners. > > -Josh > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner > wrote: >> >> We've done

Re: [guardian-dev] We want your feedback on Courier

2014-06-16 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I've been using it and enjoying it. Nice to have all my feeds going through Tor by default, and yet have a nice, easy, modern UI. And for those who like to test using the bleeding edge builds, you can get Courier from our nightly test build repo for FDroid: https://guardianproject.info/2014/06/0

[guardian-dev] source code for Android exploits and detectors

2014-06-16 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
It seems like it should be pretty straightforward to scan APKs for "Master Key" exploits, and perhaps other exploits are similarly straightforward to look for. So I was wondering whether anyone knows about a free software APK scanner. There are a bunch of proprietary ones, but I'd like to includ

Re: [guardian-dev] Serverless XMPP Feedback

2014-06-17 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Great to see progress on this! The combo of Serverless XMPP and OTRDATA will make for a really easy and secure way for transferring files between devices, so it would be great to have wide support for them. On 06/17/2014 05:12 PM, David Brodsky wrote: > I've been working on rebasing the serverle

Re: [guardian-dev] We want your feedback on Courier

2014-06-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
: > I'm getting a 404 error when trying to follow the (non-onion) link to > the F-Droid repo. > > Cheers, > Michael > > On 16/06/14 22:52, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > >> I've been using it and enjoying it. Nice to have all my feeds >> going thr

[guardian-dev] "Google-free" test version of TextSecure

2014-06-20 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
There is work underway for making a "Google-free" version of TextSecure, i.e. a version of TextSecure that does not require Google's GCM service. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/1000 Join in the test by installing it via the FDroid test repo (testing only, not a secure build o

Re: [guardian-dev] possible to turn a phone into a mobile multi-use penetration testing platform?

2014-06-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Try running Lil' Debi on an Android device. It's easy to run a webserver, and most Debian things run just fine. The key difference is that it is the Android Linux kernel, not Debian's, so depending on your device, that kernel might not have all the things you need. https://github.com/guardianpr

Re: [guardian-dev] OSCON?

2014-06-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I won't make it there, unfortunately, but do let us know if you are in NYC. Any chance of a preview of what about GPG you will be talking about? .hc On 06/19/2014 02:41 PM, Tim Bray wrote: > Anyone coming? I’m doing a keynote and GPG will certainly be mentioned. > If there are going to be a fe

[guardian-dev] first working version of TrustedIntents library

2014-06-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I have the first working version of the TrustedIntents library. It is currently set up as an "Android Library Project" but it could easily be a jar too, the code is currently quite simple, but I plan on adding more convenience methods and also support for TOFU/POP. For usage examples, check out

Re: [guardian-dev] first working version of TrustedIntents library

2014-06-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On 06/24/2014 06:28 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014, at 18:06, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> I have the first working version of the TrustedIntents library. > > Very cool! > > Your "trusted chooser" will be important. I would expect as muc

Re: [guardian-dev] Amazon S3-based repo bootstrap

2014-06-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
FDroid repos are similar to Debian apt repos in that they do not rely on the security of the server they are on or the network transmission method. Once you trust a signing key, then it can verify whether all files in the repo are what they should be. Keep in mind the https://s3.amazonaws.com/gu

[guardian-dev] ci server for storymaker?

2014-06-26 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hey Josh, You mentioned in the storymaker kickoff summary that you are planning on building out a build server with devices attached. I'm assuming you're planning on making that a Jenkins box. It would be awesome if this could be available to other GP projects, and if it did not have to produce

Re: [guardian-dev] Amazon S3-based repo bootstrap

2014-06-30 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
06/25/2014 04:59 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > FDroid repos are similar to Debian apt repos in that they do not rely on the > security of the server they are on or the network transmission method. Once > you trust a signing key, then it can verify whether all files in the rep

[guardian-dev] new official Guardian Project app repo for FDroid!

2014-06-30 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
We now have an official FDroid app repository that is available via three separate methods, to guarantee access to a trusted distribution channel throughout the world! To start with, you must have FDroid installed. I recommend using the latest test release since it has support for Tor and .onion

Re: [guardian-dev] Amazon S3-based repo bootstrap

2014-07-01 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On 07/01/2014 10:50 AM, shm...@riseup.net wrote: > > > Hans-Christoph Steiner: >> >> I finally finalized the new official FDroid repo for Guardian Project apps, >> including this copy on S3! >> >> https://s3.amazonaws.com/guardianproject/index.html >>

Re: [guardian-dev] Amazon S3-based repo bootstrap

2014-07-01 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On 07/01/2014 01:04 PM, Chris Croome wrote: > Hi > > On Wed 02-Jul-2014 at 12:50:38AM +1000, shm...@riseup.net wrote: >> >> its disappointing & shocking (?) that Amazon doesn't support any DHE or >> ECDHE ciphers >> >> this means every time most android devices connect they'll default back >> to

Re: [guardian-dev] Sending files using ChatSecure

2014-07-02 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On 07/01/2014 04:47 PM, Angel Vicente wrote: > El Thu, 26 Jun 2014 02:11:06 -0004 > Nathan of Guardian escribió: >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Angel Vicente >> wrote: >>> I'm not sure if is a problem with ChatSecure: >>> I have a phone LG with ChatSecure and a Google account, and o

[guardian-dev] new NSA leak, now with source!

2014-07-03 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
The latest article from the Snowden leak, and this type they finally included some source code! http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/NSA-targets-the-privacy-conscious,nsa230.html Definitely worth reading the whole thing. .hc -- PGP fingerprint: 5E61 C878 0F86 295C E17D 8677 9F0F E587 374B

Re: [guardian-dev] Orbot 14.0.4.3 USB permissions

2014-07-07 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
That permission was added so that Orbot can reliably write out the debug log out to the SDCard, and share it to other apps. .hc On 07/06/2014 01:20 AM, Delton Barnes wrote: > Hello, > > Why does Orbot 14.0.4.3 newly need the following permissions: > > - modify or delete the contents of your US

[guardian-dev] making Debian's software updates more private

2014-07-08 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
A few of us have been trying to figure out how to improve Debian's software distribution so that the software that people are using remains more private and difficult to snoop on a mass scale. You can follow the discussions here: * https://bugs.debian.org/750522 * https://lists.debian.org/debian-

Re: [guardian-dev] Orbot 14.0.4.3 USB permissions

2014-07-08 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Android. We ended up > writing a blog post [1] and linking to it from within the App Store, > giving us something to reference down the road. > > [1] http://zetetic.net/blog/2014/4/21/strip-for-android-permissions.html > > On 7/7/14, 11:25 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >&

Re: [guardian-dev] making Debian's software updates more private

2014-07-14 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
wrote: > you could also add this to 70debconf and update over Tor > > Acquire::http::Proxy "http://localhost:8118";; > Acquire::https::SslForceVersion "TLSv1"; > > > > Hans-Christoph Steiner: >> >> A few of us have been trying to figure ou

Re: [guardian-dev] silent circle out-of-circle (PSTN) calls

2014-07-15 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Unfortunately, RedPhone only completely encrypts the voice stream, lots of metadata is very much visible. Same goes with any existing secure call system. .hc On 07/15/2014 01:14 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote: > Not sure agree Redphone is the same story, in that what they created was a > user ex

Re: [guardian-dev] RATS! (on-device test runner)

2014-07-29 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Also, apparently the US Dept of Homeland Security has sponsored a testing service called SWAMP. It is based on cppcheck, findbugs and others. cppcheck and findbugs are in Debian and Ubuntu, and have Jenkins plugins. cppcheck has already caught a number of notable issues in our own project and G

Re: [guardian-dev] RATS! (on-device test runner)

2014-07-29 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
using cppcheck and findbugs with our own Jenkins instances. .hc On 07/29/2014 09:09 PM, Josh Steiner wrote: > Aside from an amazing acronym, at a glance I can't really figure out > what this... is. -j > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner > wrote: >>

Re: [guardian-dev] Google Play Developer Console API now lets you script pushing APKs!

2014-07-30 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Yes indeed. I plan on getting this integrated into the fdroid tools so that it'll upload releases to fdroid repos via ssh and Amazon S3, and upload directly to Google Play also, all with a single command, and integrated into the offline signing process. :-D Anyone seen anything like this for any

Re: [guardian-dev] NetCipher and gradle

2014-07-31 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
We'd like to support gradle for all of our libraries and apps, but most of us are not using gradle yet, so patches are welcome. gradle looks quite promising, but it is still very much a moving target. So right now the effect of using gradle is to shift the build system pain from the daily develo

Re: [guardian-dev] NetCipher and gradle

2014-08-01 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
and gradle >> is tricky enough to have blocked something I'm working on for a couple >> of days now. Gradle seems to me unreasonably big for what it does, >> and not in the slightest intuitive. But I'm on the most painful part >> of the learning curve, maybe I'll

Re: [guardian-dev] about using dev and onion in f-droid

2014-08-02 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Thanks for this report! 0.70 seems to have a few bugs, if you to get it working now, I've been using 0.69. 0.71 should be out anyday now and it includes fixes for lots of things, including the issue connecting to Amazon S3. As for the corrupted download, I haven't seen those really at all, maybe

Re: [guardian-dev] about using dev and onion in f-droid

2014-08-02 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > > On 08/02/2014 09:10 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> As for the corrupted download, I haven't seen those really at all, maybe once >> or twice. Can you send more info? > > Could the corrupted download be actually an

Re: [guardian-dev] SQLCipher: best practices

2014-08-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
We have a library for managing SQLCipher and IOCipher passwords, its called Cacheword: https://github.com/guardianproject/cacheword It is used in Courier, InformaCam, ChatSecure and others, so you can look there for examples. .hc Cédric Jeanneret wrote: > Hello, > > I'm considering using SQLC

[guardian-dev] Xiaomi phones send private data back to company servers

2014-08-11 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
This does not look good for Xiaomi phones. It seems that they "silently sent out user details to a remote server": https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/2731.html .hc -- PGP fingerprint: 5E61 C878 0F86 295C E17D 8677 9F0F E587 374B BE81 ___

Re: [guardian-dev] Manage Orbot from external app: Tor admin?

2014-08-14 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Cédric Jeanneret wrote: > On August 11, 2014 3:41:41 PM CEST, Nathan of Guardian > wrote: >> >> >> On 08/11/2014 03:01 AM, Cédric Jeanneret wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Currently working on orwall[1], a user submitted an interesting >> issue[2]. >>> >>> First, I thought "I'll need some lib [netCip

Re: [guardian-dev] Manage Orbot from external app: Tor admin?

2014-08-14 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Cedric Jeanneret wrote: > > > On 08/14/2014 06:07 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> >> >> Cédric Jeanneret wrote: >>> On August 11, 2014 3:41:41 PM CEST, Nathan of Guardian >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 08/11/

Re: [guardian-dev] about using dev and onion in f-droid

2014-08-21 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
0.6 from the .onion repo with proxy disabled !!! > > not stoned - got the screengrab too ;-) > > ya'll have a good W.E. GP > > que sera sera / laissez-faire > > > shm...@riseup.net wrote: >> >> >> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>>

Re: [guardian-dev] I2P Android client library (was Manage Orbot from external app: Tor admin?)

2014-08-21 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
str4d wrote: > On 08/15/2014 01:43 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > >> Cedric Jeanneret wrote: >>> Just for information: I've a similar request regarding i2p >>> support in Tor, and there's currently a client library being >>> developed.

[guardian-dev] android-9 (2.3) minimum for cacheword?

2014-08-21 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Since we're often caught in hellish loops of jar version conflicts and the like, I'd like to remove as many dependencies from cacheword as possible. For example, it looks like the only thing we really need spongycastle is to support Android 2.2 and older (i.e. older than android-9). ChatSecure,

Re: [guardian-dev] Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren’t Anonymous After All

2014-08-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Yeah, anonymity is hard. I wonder if they even encrypt stuff they write to local storage. Good to see that Snapchat got busted for their grand claims backed by weak implementations: http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/05/snapchat-settles-ftc-charges-promises-disappearing-messages-

[guardian-dev] simplifying cacheword deployment

2014-08-27 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
In the interest of simplifying cacheword deployment, I'm proposing to ship the core functionality as a plain jar file, then have a "helpers" library project that people could use as a library project, or just copy the classes and modify them as they see fit. This means that cacheword.jar will onl

Re: [guardian-dev] Fwd: [messaging] Release of OpenKeychain 2.8 for Android

2014-08-29 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Looks quite nice! Just gave it a quick try. The UX is definitely a lot better. A couple of little details: * when creating a key, the "name" text field does not seem to be set to handle names (i.e. android:inputType="textPersonName") * the default hash algorithm shouldn't be SHA-512 since tha

Re: [guardian-dev] Fwd: [messaging] Release of OpenKeychain 2.8 for Android

2014-09-02 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Dominik Schuermann wrote: > Hey, > > On 08/29/2014 08:35 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> * when creating a key, the "name" text field does not seem to be set to >> handle >> names (i.e. android:inputType="textPersonName") > > tha

[guardian-dev] IOCipher v0.2 release!

2014-09-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
After unexpected complexity for adding mount/unmount logic and lots of testing, I think IOCipher v0.2 is ready for release. It can be used as an Android library project: git clone https://github.com/guardianproject/IOCipher Or as a jar with native .so files: https://guardianproject.info/releases/

[guardian-dev] working towards a CacheWord v0.1 release

2014-09-05 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
So I've just wrapped up a big push to nail down the CacheWord API and simply the library as much as possible. I'll eventually make a proper release with a jar file, but for now it is just in git: https://github.com/guardianproject/cacheword Here are the notable changes, feedback welcome: * the

[guardian-dev] public Jenkins instance: see our build logs

2014-09-16 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
We've been running a private Jenkins instance for a while now, and its quite useful to us. The build logs are also useful to other people, so I've set up a public Jenkins instance so that anyone can view the build logs. http://qssio5fppcrojdh3.onion:8080 A couple notes on usage: * no login nec

Re: [guardian-dev] BitTorrent Bleep - another secure/private chat app

2014-09-17 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
http://engineering.bittorrent.com/2014/09/17/how-does-bleep-work/?shareadraft=baba133_5418786f2fdc2 The Distributed Hash Table (DHT) for finding contacts looks quite nice. A notable downside is that Bleep negotiates a direct SIP/RTP connection between the two users. That means anyone that can s

Re: [guardian-dev] Android WebView SOP vulnerability (CVE-2014-6041)

2014-09-19 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014, at 08:55 AM, Tom Ritter wrote: >> The way I'd exploit it is by sending you a link via >> email/txt/chatsecure when I think/hope you're on your phone with some >> enticing subject like "Someone just dropped a ChatSecure 0day on >> ExploitDB.

[guardian-dev] Lil' Debi 0.5 beta release!

2014-09-19 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
There have been some big new features implemented in Lil' Debi, mostly due to the work of Kumar Sukhani (aka sdkie), who was the Google Summer of Code student working on Lil' Debi. * integrated boot process via /etc/init.d/rc so that when you start Lil' Debi, any services (sshd, nginx, etc.) that

Re: [guardian-dev] Guardian F-Droid repository?

2014-09-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014, at 03:16 PM, Delton Barnes wrote: >> Delton Barnes: >>> Is the Guardian F-Droid repository deprecated? (The new one at >>> https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/repo, not the old one.) I installed >>> Orbot 14.0.7.1 from it. Orbot 14.0.8.2

Re: [guardian-dev] Android WebView SOP vulnerability (CVE-2014-6041)

2014-09-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> Yet another stark reminder that the web only really works with public >> information. Running applications on the web is really just a terrible >> idea >> fro

Re: [guardian-dev] Android WebView SOP vulnerability (CVE-2014-6041)

2014-09-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > > Nathan of Guardian wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>> Yet another stark reminder that the web only really works with public >>> information. Running applications

[guardian-dev] storing browser history in a way that sites can't read it

2014-09-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I find it quite useful to have a log of the websites that I have visited. Then I don't need to make bookmarks, I can just search my history. But as far as I understand it, browsers always make the browsing history available to all sites that run javascript. Is there a way to store browser histor

Re: [guardian-dev] Fwd: [liberationtech] Proposal for more-trustable code from app stores; comments welcome.

2014-09-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I'll repost my reply from the d...@openitp.org list: FDroid already provides most of what you describe, all of the over 1000 APKs (except Firefox, that's in the works) are built only from 100% publicly available source. I'm in the midst of finalizing a funding proposal to add deterministic builds

Re: [guardian-dev] storing browser history in a way that sites can't read it

2014-09-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Tom Ritter wrote: > On 24 September 2014 13:11, Hans-Christoph Steiner > wrote: >> But as far >> as I understand it, browsers always make the browsing history available to >> all >> sites that run javascript. > > That's not true. You cannot simply c

[guardian-dev] ChatSecure is in Cafe Bazaar, the Iranian Android app store

2014-09-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I just found this interesting morsel, with already 2000+ installs: http://cafebazaar.ir/app/info.guardianproject.otr.app.im/?l=en .hc -- PGP fingerprint: 5E61 C878 0F86 295C E17D 8677 9F0F E587 374B BE81 ___ Guardian-dev mailing list Post: Guardian

Re: [guardian-dev] ChatSecure is in Cafe Bazaar, the Iranian Android app store

2014-09-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
> - cooper > On 09/24/2014 01:31 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> I just found this interesting morsel, with already 2000+ installs: >> >> http://cafebazaar.ir/app/info.guardianproject.otr.app.im/?l=en >> >> .hc >> > > _

Re: [guardian-dev] ChatSecure is in Cafe Bazaar, the Iranian Android app store

2014-09-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
very modern in design. .hc Cooper Quintin wrote: > Has anyone been able to get the APK of this? I would love to poke around > at it, but it seems the only way to get it is to download bazaar, which > I am less than keen to do. > > - cooper > On 09/24/2014 01:31 PM, Hans-Christoph S

Re: [guardian-dev] Update your servers for real

2014-09-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
dash is still the default /bin/sh, for speed and security, but you can change that to bash if you want: https://wiki.debian.org/DashAsBinSh Ubuntu also uses dash by default: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh .hc Lee Azzarello wrote: > This output is from a Debian stable base system built with

Re: [guardian-dev] Update your servers for real

2014-09-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
ystem to use it as default. Am I misunderstanding > something? > > -lee > > On Thursday, September 25, 2014, Hans-Christoph Steiner < > h...@guardianproject.info> wrote: > >> >> dash is still the default /bin/sh, for speed and security, but you can

Re: [guardian-dev] Update your servers for real

2014-09-26 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
er. > Perhaps debootstrap or my platform build scripts override the default > shell for root to be bash? > > Anyhoo, I think most people prefer Bash because it is very close to a > real programming language. This shellshock shitstorm might be a > setback for popular programming cu

Re: [guardian-dev] Update your servers for real

2014-09-27 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
less secure, as we are seeing with these exploits. dash makes a much better /bin/sh .hc Lee Azzarello wrote: > If I'm not mistaken, you just recommended not using bash as a > solution. is that correct? > > -lee > > On 9/26/14, 1:24 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >

Re: [guardian-dev] Update your servers for real

2014-09-27 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
't know. > > Anecdote: I had a short gig not too long ago to install some esoteric > enterprise database on Solaris 10 for some financial institution. The > default shell for Solaris 10 is...wait for it... > > C shell! > > *mind blown* > > I never thought I

Re: [guardian-dev] earphones question

2014-09-29 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
If you have a headset with a mic plugged into your phone, then it is basically the same process to listen to the headset mic as it is to listen to the internal mic. .hc Matej Kovacic wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question regarding earphones... when you switch them to a > mobile phone, what happens

Re: [guardian-dev] FireChat moved off iOS proprietary mesh to their own xp mesh protocol?

2014-10-01 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014, at 09:42 AM, Nathan of Guardian wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014, at 09:29 AM, Nathan of Guardian wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014, at 08:18 AM, Michael Rogers wrote: Interesting idea! With old school Bluetooth you can't make an

Re: [guardian-dev] earphones question

2014-10-01 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Matej Kovacic wrote: > Hi, > >> I do think though, at an API level, you can target specific microphones, >> regardless of what the user has done. Will have to check that though > > Well, that is important question for those, who would like to use > JackPair device. It is a separate device,

[guardian-dev] "secure mobile communications" training materials

2014-10-02 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hey all, I'm going to be doing a "secure mobile communications" training in November, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to gather relevant materials, organize it, and hopefully get it incorporated into https://www.level-up.cc Any suggestions for materials, please send my way! It can be sli

Re: [guardian-dev] GilgaMesh (was Re: FireChat moved off iOS proprietary mesh to their own xp mesh protocol?)

2014-10-03 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
My experience with WiFi Direct is the exact opposite. I spend a day with it and couldn't get anything working. So my guess is that the quality of WiFi Direct support varies widely based on ROM and hardware. .hc Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014, at 04:07 PM, Chris Ballinger

Re: [guardian-dev] GilgaMesh (was Re: FireChat moved off iOS proprietary mesh to their own xp mesh protocol?)

2014-10-03 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Michael Rogers wrote: > On 02/10/14 21:07, Chris Ballinger wrote: >> However, I think it would be beneficial to utilize other transports >> for Android<-->Android and iOS<-->iOS for increased overall range / >> mesh quality. The iOS MultipeerConnectivity framework uses Wifi / >> Bluetooth in a pr

Re: [guardian-dev] GilgaMesh (was Re: FireChat moved off iOS proprietary mesh to their own xp mesh protocol?)

2014-10-03 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014, at 11:29 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> My experience with WiFi Direct is the exact opposite. I spend a day with >> it >> and couldn't get anything working. So my guess is that the quality of >>

[guardian-dev] implementing MultipeerConnectivity was: GilgaMesh (was Re: FireChat moved off iOS proprietary mesh to their own xp mesh protocol?)

2014-10-03 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > > Michael Rogers wrote: >> On 02/10/14 21:07, Chris Ballinger wrote: >>> However, I think it would be beneficial to utilize other transports >>> for Android<-->Android and iOS<-->iOS for increased overall range / &g

Re: [guardian-dev] GilgaMesh (was Re: FireChat moved off iOS proprietary mesh to their own xp mesh protocol?)

2014-10-03 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> Before diving too deep into implementing more on this discovery hack, I >> think >> the important question to ask is what we would actually do with a low >> ba

Re: [guardian-dev] GilgaMesh (was Re: FireChat moved off iOS proprietary mesh to their own xp mesh protocol?)

2014-10-03 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > > Nathan of Guardian wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>> Before diving too deep into implementing more on this discovery hack, I >>> think >>> the important q

Re: [guardian-dev] Gilgamesh, FireChat etc

2014-10-08 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hey Paul, Good to see your comments here, since you're deep in the mesh. I wanted to get your thoughts on a question: since this bluetooth name hack is a broadcast-only transport, I fear it will also have the same limitations as all other mesh transports with rely on some kind of broadcast messa

Re: [guardian-dev] Gilgamesh, FireChat etc

2014-10-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
If there is DNS communication, that means there is IP communication already setup. Or is there some kind of special DNS for wifi direct? If there is IP, then I think you'll get a lot more efficient data transfer using IP protocols like UDP broadcasts or multicast. .hc Paul Gardner-Stephen wrot

Re: [guardian-dev] Gilgamesh, FireChat etc

2014-10-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
ve-by data systems working. Here's an article about it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6506193.stm The organization is apparently based in Cambridge, MA, maybe you could say hello, Nathan: http://www.unitedvillages.com/ http://www.firstmilesolutions.com/ .hc Hans-Christoph Steiner wrot

Re: [guardian-dev] Native binaries in Android L: PIE!

2014-10-11 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Yeah, I saw that in the NDK. Its bad. We'll have to ship two versions of all native binaries, since PIE support is pretty new in Android. .hc Nathan of Guardian wrote: > Seems like we need to review all our cross-compiling code... > > "While using native executables in our existing Android ap

Re: [guardian-dev] SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17

2014-10-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Should directly apply. Zetetic is in the process of updating SQLCipher to be based on SQLite 3.8.7. I think the next release (3.2) is supposed to be based on 3.8.7. .hc Josh Steiner wrote: > Wonder how much of this will rub off on SqlCipher / IOCipher? > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp

Re: [guardian-dev] Native binaries in Android L: PIE!

2014-10-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
y PIE binaries. .hc Josh Steiner wrote: > Ug, lots of rumors that L might be launching as early as this week. -j > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner > wrote: >> >> Yeah, I saw that in the NDK. Its bad. We'll have to ship two versions of &g

Re: [guardian-dev] Native binaries in Android L: PIE!

2014-10-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
The good news is that Chrome is also affected, so it looks like the Chromium/Chrome developers are working on a strategy to handle supporting ICS with PIE binaries: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=373219 .hc Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > Here's how to do thi

[guardian-dev] owncloud + jsxc: webchat that does XMPP, OTR, and webrtc

2014-10-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I've just been playing with owncloud, and despite my hatred of PHP, I have to say owncloud is really quite impressive. It provides a dropbox-like service, web calendar + caldav sync, and now I just found out that it can do XMPP webchat with OTR and webrtc: http://www.jsxc.org/ This could be a s

Re: [guardian-dev] owncloud + jsxc: webchat that does XMPP, OTR, and webrtc

2014-10-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> >> I've just been playing with owncloud, and despite my hatred of PHP, I >> have to >> say owncloud is really quite impressive. It provides a dropbox-lik

Re: [guardian-dev] owncloud + jsxc: webchat that does XMPP, OTR, and webrtc

2014-10-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
e for production”. > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Nathan of Guardian < > nat...@guardianproject.info> wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>> >>> I've just been playing with owncloud, a

Re: [guardian-dev] owncloud + jsxc: webchat that does XMPP, OTR, and webrtc

2014-10-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
jsxc is just a javascript XMPP+OTR client. It can be embedded in owncloud. .hc Lee Azzarello wrote: > Is this a Linux distro with application installed by default? > > -lee > > On 10/13/14, 11:30 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> >> I've just been playi

Re: [guardian-dev] owncloud + jsxc: webchat that does XMPP, OTR, and webrtc

2014-10-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
n? Why is it easier to use Owncloud for an XMPP server, > versus for example, Debian? > > -lee > > On 10/13/14, 3:58 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> >> jsxc is just a javascript XMPP+OTR client. It can be embedded in owncloud. >> >> .hc >> >

Re: [guardian-dev] GP libraries and apps that will be impacted by Android L changes?

2014-10-14 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
SQLCipher, IOCipher, android-ffmpeg, Orbot, GnuPrivacyGuard, and Lil Debi are affected. CacheWord, NetCipher, TrustedIntents, and F-Droid are not affected. If your minimum target SDK is android-16 (aka 4.1) then it will be easy to deal with. Otherwise, it'll be a chunk of work that is annoying

Re: [guardian-dev] GP libraries and apps that will be impacted by Android L changes?

2014-10-14 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
urity to >> install these apps, they shouldn't be running them on obsolete hardware, >> especially if their device manufacturer stopped shipping OS / security >> updates. >> >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner < >> h...@guardianproject.inf

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