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    The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke person security propublica.org
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      jcs avatar jcs 8 years ago | link

      https://twitter.com/stripe/status/563449352635432960

      Stripe and Facebook are going to sponsor @gnupg development with $50k/year each.

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        mempko avatar mempko 8 years ago | link

        Amazing how a news story does that.

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        duck_of_death avatar duck_of_death 8 years ago | link

        Damn, I wish big companies would sponsor OpenBSD with such zeal.

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          zacbrown avatar zacbrown 8 years ago | link

          All it would take is a news article portraying that Theo de Raadt is living in a cardboard box while OpenSSL and LibreSSL languish. :-/

          That or someone that is an OpenBSD nut joins Facebook/Google and convinces management to pony up some cash.

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      patrickod avatar patrickod 8 years ago | link

      Also today Werner announced that the Linux foundation have given him a $60k grant to work on GnuPG https://twitter.com/gnupg/status/563456662024228865

      It’s heartening to see the public response today, though I wonder how best it can be turned into sustainable long-term support for the project?

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      twinumber avatar twinumber 8 years ago | link

      At least he got a donation from Megatron https://gnupg.org/donate/kudos.html

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        henkjan avatar henkjan 8 years ago | link

        More interesting contributors:

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        little bobby tables shows up everywhere

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          ssl avatar ssl 8 years ago | link

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      kel avatar kel 8 years ago | link

      That is a beautiful keyboard in the banner shot

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        ssl avatar ssl 8 years ago | link

        ibm model m it looks like

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        Sirocco avatar Sirocco 8 years ago | link

        That’s a blue-label model M. It has ever been a classy piece of technology, and I suspect decades from now will remain so.

        I have a few silver label Ms at home.

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      quintus avatar quintus 8 years ago | link

      Glad he finally got the attention he needed. Without GnuPG, secure mailing with free software would be a lot harder. Also, GnuPG is a key component of basically every larger Linux distribution as it is used to sign the packages in the package repositories.

      I wonder though where the FSF was. According to the article, it was Stallman who actually caused Koch to start development, and the FSF was (is?) promoting GnuPG as the proper way to do email encryption. Given the importance of this tool for people like Snowden it’s unbelievable how barely recognised its developer was.

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        quintus avatar quintus 8 years ago | link

        Ok, on the FSF I just found this article: https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141217-01.en.html