Re: [liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-26 Thread Guido Witmond
On 11/25/13 16:01, Dan Meredith wrote: Hello LibTech, The Open Technology Fund is surveying projects working on next generation secure email or email-like communication. The purpose of this survey is to identify potential areas of collaboration, better understand the trade-offs made by the

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-26 Thread Guido Witmond
I've completed the survey and attached it here. With Regards, Guido Witmond. Oops, send out to the list, instead of privately. Please be careful with any information in there. It's toxic, powerful and highly flammable. Feel free to discuss part you find interesting, appealing or

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-25 Thread Robert Guerra
Thanks for sharing the projects being funded. Just out of curiosity, can you disclose the donors/ source of funding of the secure email support initiative. Thanks! Robert On 2013-11-25, at 12:01 PM, Dan Meredith wrote: Hello LibTech, The Open Technology Fund is surveying projects

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-25 Thread Dan Meredith
Heya Robert, Apologies if the initial email wasn't clear. The purpose is a survey to map the space. The listed projects are merely projects publicly known to be developing secure email technology. As such, they have been invited to volunteer their time to complete the survey. Our commitment is to

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-25 Thread carlo von lynX
First of all thank you for picking up this important topic - it's the kind of outcome out of the PGP criticism I had hoped for. Congratulations on the insight and depth of the questions in the form - looks like a better and more comprehensive survey than my tentative comparison page. :-) The

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-25 Thread Seth David Schoen
carlo von lynX writes: Hm, federation is so commonly expected to be the normality that any distributed system is filed under p2p even if, like Tor, it runs on thousands of servers, thus rather distant from what p2p was supposed to mean. Tor started as P2P, but I think it isn't anymore. I

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-25 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:06 PM, carlo von lynX l...@time.to.get.psyced.org wrote: I would add liberte' cables (http://dee.su/cables) I did fill out the survey, actually — by request, so no idea why Cables does not appear in the list above. The survey was clearly composed by a domain expert, so

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-25 Thread StealthMonger
Dan Meredith meredi...@rfa.org writes: OTF is entirely a publicly funded program. Support is given from the US Congress in an appropriation bill each year. So it's funded by extortion (taxation). That's the kiss of death! stealthmail (see .sig below) certainly qualifies for your criteria,