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

[Kumar Sukhani]

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On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Chris Ballinger <chrisballinger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's great that Android is finally forcing PIE, even though the transition
> may be a bit of a pain, because without it ASLR is much less effective.
>
> Why not set the minimum target to 4.1 and just tell people to buy newer
> hardware? From this version distribution
> <https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/android_frag> it seems like a large
> portion of people are running 4.1 or higher. I realize a lot of GP apps are
> targeted to people in countries who may not have access to the latest and
> greatest hardware, but it seems like if users care enough about security 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 <
> hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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 to do.
>>
>> In the meantime, we should set maxSdkVersion="20" in our apps so that
>> people
>> don't try to install it on Android L.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> David Oliver wrote:
>> > I understand from a prior post that Android L introduces new
>> requirements
>> > for native executables (and/or native libraries).  Can someone advise
>> here
>> > which of the GP libraries and apps are likely to be impacted in the near
>> > term?
>> >
>> > For my part, and to my limited understanding, the
>> > Courier/Paik/Idaho/YakReader suite will not be impacted by these new
>> > requirements directly (unless SQLCipher, IOCipher and/or CacheWord are
>> > impacted).
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dave O
>> >
>> > David M. Oliver | david at olivercoady.com | http://olivercoady.com |
>> > http://dmo.tel | Ostel: oliv | +1 970 368 2366
>> >
>> >
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