Hi all, all of us know that there is some little problem with TrueCrypt software project, with some yet unknown understanding of behind the scene facts.
However TrueCrypt a widely used software, it deserve to be restored and it's development be maintained during time. I read several initiatives that propose to do something to keep it's development, such as: - http://Truecrypt.ch - http://Geekcrypt.net Also others are going to start similar approaches. We should ask WHO should do it , with which APPROACH and with which RESOURCES? WHO: Who is going to takeover TrueCrypt project seriously should be an entity (foundation, consortium, coalition, etc) of multiple players coming from a different environments from the civil society. APPROACH: The approach should be to focus on a multi-stakeholders approach, with players from the accademia, from hacking/crypto environment, from the NGO's environment, from the encryption markets, from the "grants and funding" of such projects. RESOURCES: To do something like that for sure it's required to allocate a certain amount of resources in terms of engineering for new developments, bugfixing, release management, documentation, advocacy, security audits, etc Such resources obviously have a costs, so someone should bring also a financial effort. I know also about some company willing to provide development effort for such a public public interests project, to keep it maintained in the future. So, my open questions to: - Shouldn't a coalition be started up lead such a TrueCrypt recovery/takeover effort? - Which other organizations are already considering such an effort? - Who should be the right funders/donors to contribute financially to such effort? I think we should likely try map the organizations willing to work on such TrueCrypt recovery/takeover to partners together. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
