Dear Daniel Kahn Gillmor, My name is Sylvain Besençon, I am an anthropologist from the university of Fribourg, Switzerland, and I am doing a research for my PhD on the maintenance work of OpenPGP implementations, not from a technical point of view but rather from a socio-historical perspective. My objectives are, on the one hand, to collect information about the history of OpenPGP (from the very early days up to now), and on the second hand, to document the maintenance work that is done to keep the protocol and its implementations secure. However, my interest for OpenPGP goes beyond my sole academic papers: I love crypto, I love open source and I love easy-to-use privacy enhancing technologies. This is why I would love to be able to modestly contribute to this by bringing what I can do, namely socio-anthropological analyses to document the community effort to securely deploy such technologies.
I have seen that you are quite active on the mailing list of GnuPG-users which is where I had your email address, and I was wondering if you would agree to help me in my research by answering a few questions during an interview (per video con, phone call or merely email). I also saw that you participate at the IETF and I was wondering if you will go to Montreal for the 150th IETF meeting in a few weeks? I might also be able to come and that would be fantastic to meet you in person there. I look forward to hearing from you, Kind regards, Sylvain -- Sylvain Besençon ▪︎ Assistant diplômé Unité anthropologie sociale Département des sciences sociales Université de Fribourg Bld. de Pérolles 90, CH-1700 Fribourg PER21 - Bureau G320 +41 26 300 78 46 PGP: 9DDA 48E2 24FC A040 6B3A Blog: https://blog.unifr.ch/cva Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography: https://cva.unifr.ch
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