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seemoo-lab / privatedrop

privatedrop

Practical Privacy-Preserving Authentication for Apple AirDrop

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
237GitHub stars
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What it is

Practical Privacy-Preserving Authentication for Apple AirDrop

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-04-25 08:28:16 UTC to 2021-06-15 13:21:40 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsApr 192021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 172021-05-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 14

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Apr 192021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC110
Apr 262021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-03 00:00:00 UTC000
May 32021-05-03 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-10 00:00:00 UTC000
May 102021-05-10 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-17 00:00:00 UTC000
May 172021-05-17 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-24 00:00:00 UTC000
May 242021-05-24 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-31 00:00:00 UTC000
May 312021-05-31 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 72021-06-07 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 142021-06-14 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-21 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Well, that’s why I said it’s unlikely :)! Without purchasing additional hardware it’s not practical to be able to run AirDrop directly on non-Apple devices. There’s no need to extract any Apple keys to be able to receive files, but the public root key appears to be needed able to send files to an Apple device. OWL, OpenDrop and their latest project PrivateDrop (https://github.com/seemoo-lab/privatedrop) are linked heavily throughout the series - their reverse engineering of the protocol have been absolutely invaluable in building something that works, more or less sanely on non-Apple devices! Huge kudos to them!
In AirDrop Anywhere – Making it work on Windows

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