LEAP Encryption Access Project

Mid july we released packages as a maintanance release with support for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic). For install instructions check out https://dl.bitmask.net/linux/ The bundles however have not been updated, our plan is to deprecate them and migrate to Snap-packages, which will take some time. As usual bug reports and feedback is very welcome.

We are proud that Tides awarded LEAP member Andre Bianchi the 2018 Pizzigati Prize. Thank you a lot for this recognition of the work done to make it possible to freely communicate digitally and to support social change!

Last year, LEAP was awarded a grant from the Mozilla Open Source Support program to improve its encrypted email system. We would like to share with you some of the work that has been done as a result of that, and also thank Mozilla for its initiative.

Last week several of us went to Athens (Greece) for a hackathon around katzenpost. Katzenpost is a mix network, based on the Loopix anonymity system, developed as part of the european union project PANORAMIX.

Platform 0.10.0 has been released! This release was made to update of all client-side daemons to newest releases, like Soledad and OpenVPN.

Have opinions about Android UI? We are updating the UI/UX and will release a new version in 2017. Chime in on our issue tracker

Our Android app arose from the mothballs! Bug fixes, security updates, works on tablets, fixed login on 7 and supports Android 4.1 to 8. Get it now!

After a massive refactor, we have now are happy to release Bitmask for Mac! Try the beta.

We are pleased to announce the Bitmask 0.10 release, codename “la rosa de foc”. You can refer to the changelog for all the changes.

We are hard at work improving Bitmask’s encryption and synchronization times. Benchmarking is showing excellent results. In order to improve Bitmask’s performance for email, recent work on the sync-able and encrypted Soledad data-store has been to adapt it to better handle binary e2e-encrypted data (what we are calling “blobs”). Work in the last months has been in the direction of making the Soledad “blobs” support more reliable, better documented and tested, and to make speed improvements visible.