Direct APKs for WireGuard Android are now available

Direct APKs for WireGuard Android are now available

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

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Hi folks,

By popular demand, on <https://www.wireguard.com/install/>, there's now 
a (somewhat small) link in the Android section called "Download APK 
File", for those who want to sideload the package or bundle it in an OS
image or whatever else.

The recommended method of installation is still of course the Play
Store, because its updater is known to work very well across devices.
But now there's a decent alternative method.

The new direct APK download and the Play Store are the *only* two
supported installation sources. Alternative builds and alternative app
stores aren't supported (unless they're shipping the direct APK file
that the WireGuard project provides).

You can verify those direct APK files using OpenBSD's signify(1):

  $ cat wireguard-android-release.pub
  untrusted comment: wireguard android release key public key
  RWTAzwGRYr3EC9px0Ia3fbttz8WcVN6wrOwWp2delz4el6SI8XmkKSMp
  $ curl -O https://download.wireguard.com/android-client/latest.sig
  $ signify -V -p wireguard-android-release.pub -e -x latest.sig -m latest
  Signature Verified
  $ read _ file < <(sort -k2 -Vr latest)
  $ curl -O https://download.wireguard.com/android-client/"$file"
  $ sha256sum -c latest --ignore-missing
  com.wireguard.android-1.0.20230512.apk: OK

This is the same Ed25519-based signature mechanism that is used by the
WireGuard Windows client. The private key lives in an HSM [1].

Jason

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=155723329924761&w=2
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