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Category: android

A Simple OpenPGP API

In this post I demonstrate how easy it is to perform OpenPGP operations in your application by using the SOP API.

October 10, 2021
PGPainless 0.2 Released!

I’m very proud and excited to announce the release of PGPainless version 0.2! Among the major improvements are proper signature verification and a new encryption API.

June 2, 2021
PGPainless 0.1.0 released

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After two years and a dozen alpha versions I am very glad to announce the first stable release of PGPainless, a library that makes using OpenPGP fun again!

September 1, 2020
OMEMO Specification Sprint

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The past weekend some members of the XMPP community gathered in Düsseldorf to work on the next iteration of the OMEMO End to End Encryption Specification. All of us agree that the result – version 0.4 of XEP-0384 – is a huge step forward and better than ever!

March 10, 2020
Re: The Ecosystem is Moving

Moxie Marlinspike gave a talk at 36C3 that misrepresented decentralized systems. This is my opinion regarding his arguments.

December 29, 2019
On “Clean Architecture”

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I’m currently reading Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin. These are my thought so far.

November 3, 2019
Dealing with Colors in lower Android versions

I wrote a little helper class to deal with colors in Android API levels < 26.

June 30, 2019
Another Step to a Google-free Life

Today I * registered an account at mailbox.org * changed my mail address to username+service@mailbox.org on all the services I use * decoupled and deleted YouTube from my Google Account Yay!

March 25, 2019
A look at Matrix.org’s OLM | MEGOLM encryption protocol

In this post I take a closer look on how matrix.org’s crypto protocols olm/megolm compare to the OMEMO protocol.

March 10, 2019
More Languages to the F-Droid Planet?

You may know about Planet F-Droid, a feed aggregator that aims to collect the blogs of many free Android projects in one place. Currently all of the registered blogs are written in English (as is this post, so if you know someone who might be concerned by the matter below and is not able to…

March 3, 2019