(Someone on [EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested I send this message to the cryptography list as well. This is an abbreviated version, the full document can be read at http://www.free.lp.se/OpenSSL-funding.html)
Fundraising for OpenSSL development Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Revision $Id: OpenSSL-funding.html,v 1.4 2004/05/24 11:09:14 levitte Exp $ Hello OpenSSL users and developpers, I'm Richard Levitte, an OpenSSL developper. I've been active in many parts of OpenSSL, most notably in portability issues, ENGINE, UI, CONF, memory allocation and a number of other parts I forget, as well as general tinkering when and where needed. This letter is about raising funds for me to work on parts of OpenSSL that I initiated or have plans to initiate, more or less full time for at least three months, and possibly more. This letter will be kept up to date at [2]http://www.free.lp.se/OpenSSL-funding.html. So, what's the deal? The deal is that I currently find myself a little short on job assignments except for some short ones, and therefore, my planning book is more or less empty for the rest of 2004. I would like to be able to use this opportunity to make a larger contribution to OpenSSL with some tasks that are bigger than those one can complete on one's spare time within a reasonable time frame. The tasks I'm planning on are: * to complete the STORE library, including the implementaion of a few STORE accessing ENGINE modules (File, LDAP and a special one for the nCipher HSM store come in mind, and more may be added), and have it replace the current X509_LOOKUP mechanism. * to implement certificate path building that can handle simple PKIs, hierarchical PKIs, mesh PKIs, hybrid PKIs, using the current PKIX draft (currently draft-ietf-pkix-certpathbuild-03.txt) as basic document. * [OPTIONAL, if time permits] to make configuration easier to program, and to work toward a unification of all platforms so the building system looks the same everywhere. This email is an appeal to the OpenSSL user community to try to raise money for three or more months of my time to be able to dedicate time to work on the tasks shown above. -- Richard Levitte \ Tunnlandsvägen 52 \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ S-168 36 BROMMA \ T: +46-708-26 53 44 \ SWEDEN \ Procurator Odiosus Ex Infernis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the OpenSSL development team: http://www.openssl.org/ Unsolicited commercial email is subject to an archival fee of $400. See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/~levitte/mail/> for more info. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]