Your personal server for all personal data! Email, pictures and everything else!

Our Mission What Is The Kinguard Project

Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

Human Rights Article 8

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Join the community and contribute to our wiki, forum and source code.

Free and Open Source

All code on The Kinguard Project is Free and Open Source

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The Kinguard Project provides ready made images for installation on numerous platforms.

Email? Files? Pictures? Calendars? Contacts?

Yes to all, and ready to run on a device under your control.

The Kinguard Project brings you a complete, ready to go, server that can handle email, files, calendars and everything else without the hassle of trying to combine these services on your own.

Upload and share files, access and send emails without any third party involvement! The intention is that the owner is in control of the data, not a third party cloud provider.

All content data is stored encrypted and can not be accessed without unlocking the storage device and all backups are encrypted before they leave the unit in order to be securely stored on remote backends without data access to the storage provider.

The project builds on existing, well known software components and everything is open source and based on well known standards.

Human Rights

Human rights belong to every member of the human family regardless of sex, race, nationality, socio-economic group, political opinion, sexual orientation or any other status.

Human rights are universal. They apply to all people simply on the basis of being human.

Human rights are inalienable. They cannot be taken away simply because we do not like the person seeking to exercise their rights. They can only be limited in certain tightly-defined circumstances and some rights, such as the prohibition on torture and slavery, can never be limited.

Human rights are indivisible. You cannot pick and choose which rights you want to honour. Many rights depend on each other to be meaningful – so, for example, the right to fair trial would be meaningless without the prohibition on discrimination, and the right to free speech must go hand in hand with the right to assemble peacefully.

Human rights are owed by the State to the people – this means public bodies must respect your human rights and the Government must ensure there are laws in place so that other people respect your human rights too. For example, the right to life requires not only that the actions of those working on behalf of the State do not lead to your death, but that laws are also in place to protect you from the actions of others that might want to do you harm.

Mission Statement

The KinGuard Project, and the community around it aims to support a software platform that can give the possibility to have private and personal data, available from anywhere on any device without third party dependencies and data harvesting.

By installing open source software on a device under physical control, there is no need to sign over any kind of rights on the content to the service provider, and by supporting end to end encryption wherever possible it is also possible to keep conversations and data transactions private.

The community is totally open source and hosts a forum for discussions and a wiki to help out with documentation and other static information. All software is hosted on Github and is free and open source.

Overall goal for The KinGuard Project is to have a software that can work on many platforms, without any need at all for third party involvement. The software bundles shall be made available as ready to use install images, and it should be possible to use without more administrative knowledge that is required to set up a router or access point.

OpenProducts update

July 10, 2020 by Tor Krill

Tor Krill

With the Kinguard 20.07 release OpenProducts also updated its certificates for its backend servers. If your device isn’t upgraded to the 20.07 release it means that it most likely wont be able to perform backups or DNS updates against OpenProducts servers. To fix this, make sure your device is updated…

Kinguard 20.07 Released

July 9, 2020 by Tor Krill

Tor Krill

We are happy to announce that we today release KinGuard 20.07 This release is a minor upgrade and is only provided as an upgrade. If your unit has auto update enabled it should upgrade automatically. Release notesMain visible/notable changes include Manual start of a backupManual start of an updateThe backup…

Setup Video by OpenProducts

August 2, 2019August 2, 2019 by PA Nilsson

PA Nilsson

Yesterday OpenProducts released a video on how to set up a system running The Kinguard Project software. While there are a number of steps specific for the OpenProducts setup, these are just not there in a pure Kinguard Project installation. https://www.openproducts.com/2019/08/01/keep-setup-video/

Kinguard 19.06 Released

June 5, 2019June 5, 2019 by Tor Krill

Tor Krill

We today proudly released the second major Kinguard software upgrade, version 19.06. The Kinguard software is a software suit based on Debian that is intended for users that care about their rights to their own digital content and the right to private life and communications. The software package includes a user…

Kinguard not affected by latest libssh bug

October 18, 2018 by Tor Krill

Tor Krill

I myself almost choked on my morning coffee yesterday when i read about the vulnerability in libssh, CVE-2018-10933. SSH is the bread and butter for any safe and secure communication and file transfer in the Unix world and is of course available in the Kinguard platform to give the user…

Kinguard 18.06.3

September 6, 2018 by PA Nilsson

PA Nilsson

We are currently in the process of releasing the 18.06.3 update to The Kinguard Project. It is a minor upgrade targeted towards a stability issue in the authentication software. If the authentication software failed, the system was automatically restarted since it would otherwise be locked since nobody was allowed to…

Kinguard on new devices

August 20, 2018 by Tor Krill

Tor Krill

This is a short status update on what is happening within the KinGuard Project. Since the 18.06 release we have been working hard on getting the code more flexible and thus be able to support more hardware/virtual platforms. To give some background the KinGuard Project started with the code base…

Kinguard 18.06.2

June 28, 2018 by PA Nilsson

PA Nilsson

Just a minor update this time, some improvements for file uploads. As with the last update, the web-mail application was among the ones being updated, so any existing connections from the web-mail client to the server is terminated. If it fails to read mails, logout and back in again. More…

Encryption benchmarks on LUKS with dm-crypt

June 26, 2018 by Tor Krill

Tor Krill

Phoronix published an article recently comparing different file-encryption strategies on Linux. Among them Luks and dm-crypt this is the encryption scheme used on the Kinguard platform when encrypting data storage for safekeeping your data. Turns out that the Kinguard platform solution compares is the best solution among the compared solutions…

Kinguard 18.06 updates

June 15, 2018 by PA Nilsson

PA Nilsson

A couple of packages were updated today, including the web-mail application. This has the effect that any existing connections from the web-mail client to the server is terminated and that the user has to logout and back in again. More information about the release can be found on the project…

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