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This shows the application and gives an overview of how the product works for the citizen: https://github.com/immuni-app/immuni-documentation/blob/mast...

This the main technical documentation document: https://github.com/immuni-app/immuni-documentation/blob/mast...

All the documentation is here: https://github.com/immuni-app/immuni-documentation

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I have looked a bit at the documentation (not the code yet) and I have to say that I am pleasantly surprised.

They seem to be doing this right, including an attention to the reproducibility of the builds, which IMO is of utter importance in such a sensitive app:

https://github.com/immuni-app/immuni-documentation/blob/mast...

(long story short: Android builds are substantially reproducible, iOS are not because there doesn't seem to be a way to achieve that. They are doing the best they can.)

Bending Spoons are top notch. Super glad they're the ones handling this

> To implement its contact tracing functionality, Immuni leverages the Apple and Google Exposure Notification framework (see Apple’s documentation [1] and Google’s documentation [2]).

[1] https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing

[2] https://www.google.com/covid19/exposurenotifications/

That last link seems like maybe the most informative place to start, so we've changed the link above to that from https://github.com/immuni-app.

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