On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:46:41 -0400 "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Hi Alain, nice to hear from you! We can certainly need some talent from your field. The one we probably lack the most is usability-analysis, but also code contributions and others will be valued. -- Niklas At the time of writing, no warrants have ever been served to me, Niklas Lemcke, nor am I under any personal legal compulsion concerning the CipherShed project. I do not know of any searches or seizures of my assets.
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