[ciphershed] Re: Introduction
- From: "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:00:12 -0400
Ah, I was using "buy-in" much more broadly, in terms of more people joining the
project and contributing. I actually didn't have financial contributions in
mind at all.
Alain
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Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 10:56
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Subject: [ciphershed] Re: Introduction
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
>
And I hit send before I was done..
Well here goes:
Contributions, studies and publications would all be very useful. The
idea of so-called "buy-ins" scares me though, and I know Bill will have
a similar allergic reaction to that.
The monetary question will have to be discussed and explored carefully
in the future. For the starting phase I believe we have a consensus
(correct me if I'm wrong) that we do not want any money involved, for
the consequences it almost always entails.
Again, nice to meet you,
Niklas
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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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