http://www.propublica.org/article/t...software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke Please consider donating, I have.
Dude, you beat me by maybe a minute or two I will also be donating, as soon as I free up some Bitcoins.
Keep in mind that it not just email encryption software. Signed files can be verified(huge example is update system of Linux distros) and lots of corporations also use it for encrypting files. Survival (and improvement) of GnuPG is paramount.
I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA tried to take advantage of this by trying to slip him some cash in order to include a well obfuscated hole.... It's disconcerting how something so critical to millions of people's security, is made by a solitary broke computer geek
Done - I never knew or imagined that was the situation. It violates my Tos that the many many commercial organisations that DO use these utilities have not provided funding. It's my opinion that the only circumstance under which they should have any protection or mitigation from liability for negligence in case of hacking, data loss etc. is if they have a support contract for the security code they use, and they have subscribed to an audit report and security advisories for it. I think that is the only way that high quality secure open source software will be adequately funded. And the chances of our political masters allowing that to happen are zero to negative. They actively want weak encryption and backdoors.
https://twitter.com/stripe/status/563449352635432960 Kinda makes me wonder the reasons for the donation from FB. Though I wouldn't be suprise if they use GPG as well.
OK, but the article ends with: What's the alternative to GnuPG? Is Green arguing that it would be better to start from scratch?
Google is developing end-to-end extension that can be used for mail encryption. They've even open-sourced it: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thr...o-end-chrome-extension-to-open-source.371390/
Lest the primary purpose of this topic wildly deviates from its original intent, the URL for donations to our friend Werner Koch is through https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html. Thank you all.
