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Govt open sources Aarogya Setu, announces bounty for finding security flaws

Launches bug bounty plan to test its security effectiveness

Aarogya Setu, the contact tracing app which this high-powered team went on to build and is continuing to refine, is aimed at mapping the contacts of users by analysing GPS data

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Almost 98 per cent of Aarogya Setu users are on Android platform

Neha Alawadhi New Delhi

3 min read Last Updated : May 27 2020 | 1:59 AM IST

The central government on Tuesday said it was open-sourcing the code of its Covid-19 contact-tracing app Aarogya Setu.

The source code for the Android version of the application will be available for review and collaboration on open source code repository Github. The iOS version of the application will be released as open source within the next two weeks and the server code will be released subsequently.

Almost 98 per cent of Aarogya Setu users are on Android platform. The app had over 114 million users as of Tuesday, maintaining its status as the most downloaded contact-tracing app in the world.

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