[ciphershed] Re: Introduction
- From: "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:46:41 -0400
Hi all,
I may as well introduce myself as well. I am currently a usable security and
privacy researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. I haven't done much work in
cryptography, but I and many in my field trust and strongly value TrueCrypt, so
there is personal and professional interest in seeing TrueCrypt continue and be
secure, reliable, and usable.
While I can't promise I'll have many cycles in the short-term for tangible
contributions, I can be at your disposal for a usable security and privacy
perspective on whatever aspects of the project. If TrueCrypt (or whatever it
ultimately becomes) is to be widely-adopted by the public, it needs to be
usable by them. While TrueCrypt is/was by far the most usable encryption
solution I've known of, I still think it needs more work to be easily
understandable to and usable by typical end-users.
In the future, I may have more resources to devote to this endeavour, including
code contributions, usability analyses and studies, and (hopefully) research
publications, which would increase awareness of (and potentially buy-in and
additional contributions to) this project to the research community (which
includes academics, professionals, and government parties).
Alain
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Alain Forget, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
CyLab Usable Privacy and Security group
Carnegie Mellon University
aforget@xxxxxxx
https://cups.cs.cmu.edu/~aforget/
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-----Original Message-----
From: ciphershed-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ciphershed-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of georg
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 06:05
To: ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ciphershed] Introduction
Hi all,
I've subscribed the former mailinglist, known as geekcrypt@, some days
ago, and now after the name switch of the project I'm on this new one
aswell.
Up until now I didn't wrote anything, having lots of stuff to do at the
moment and limited time, and only read your mails.
I'm based in Berlin, Germany. Don't have any deep knowledge of
mathematics and crypto stuff, but I like the project and I think its
quite important to keep it going or give it a start at least.
I'm using Debian since ~ eight years and I'm a big fan of FOSS etc. If
you need any support with server administration, planning and building
infrastructure and stuff like this, I could give a hand (or two).
Greetings,
Georg
P.S.: English is not my mother tongue, so forgive me if I'm sounding weird.
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