[liberationtech] Secure Video Recording for Android

John Sullivan johns at fsf.org
Mon Apr 27 06:27:14 PDT 2015


Nathan of Guardian <nathan at guardianproject.info> writes:

> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
>> Hello! Thank you a lot for publishing your work under GPL.
>> Do you know of a similar application for still pictures, also GPL?
>
> As poly stated, the Strongbox project is based on our (the Guardian
> Project) IOCipher encrypted mobile storage library
> (https://guardianproject.info/code), and the CipherCam library/sample
> project available here: https://github.com/n8fr8/IOCipherCameraExample
>

This is all awesome work -- thank you. But is it true that there's still
a black box in the chain? AFAIK, there is no free software support for
doing video encoding, so we still rely on the proprietary encoders for
all the Android devices I'm aware of.

-john

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