OpenProducts update

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

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…

Kinguard 19.06 Released

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 on new devices

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…

Encryption benchmarks on LUKS with dm-crypt

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…