The key parts of the amendment are the following: > De indieners van dit amendement [willen] de ontwikkeling en versterking van encryptie ondersteunen door €0,5 miljoen te doneren aan open source encryptie projecten, zoals OpenSSL, LibreSSL, PolarSSL, etc. > […] > Het ministerie van Economische Zaken moet, in samenspraak met deskundigen uit het veld, projecten selecteren die cruciaal zijn voor de internationale internet infrastructuur.
Or loosely translated: > The authors of this amendment aim to support the development and reinforcement of encryption by means of a donation of €0.5 million to open source encryption projects, such as OpenSSL, LibreSSL, PolarSSL, etc. > […] > The Ministry of Economic Affairs must, together with field experts, select projects that are crucial for the international internet infrastructure. I deem it unlikely that Freenet would find any funding as a consequence of this amendment. First, the amount is donated towards "open source encryption projects", from the rest of the amendment it follows that encryption libraries are meant—which we are not in my humble opinion. We use encryption, but we don't provide it to other applications as such. Then, I would be lying if I claimed that Freenet is, at this point, crucial for the internet infrastructure. Wouldn't I? ;) If anyone would like to give it a shot regardless of the above, it would probably most useful to contact the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. Their contact information is provided in [0]. All the best, Bert [0] https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ministeries/ministerie-van-economische-zaken/inhoud/contact-met-ez Op 9 dec. 2015 01:05 schreef "Ian Clarke" <[email protected]>: > Any Dutch Freeneters want to look into this? > > > http://tweakers.net/nieuws/106723/open-encryptieprojecten-krijgen-half-miljoen-euro-van-nederlandse-overheid.html > > -- > Ian Clarke > Founder, The Freenet Project > Email: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [email protected] > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
