Tag Archives: privacy

GnuPG website and infrastructure

GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is the GNU implementation of the OpenPGP standard which is widely used for encrypting/decrypting email, disks, and other data. GPG has been around since 1997 and is a widely used and well-trusted project.

The crowdfunding campaign was conceived by Werner Koch, longtime author of GPG, and Same Tuke, of the Free Software Foundation Europe. It bundled several goals under the name ‘website and infrastructure’, including the 2.1 release, a brand new website designed to be more user friendly with new servers, mobile friendly design, anonymous Tor access, and updated documentation.

The campaign reached 100% of its ‘optimum’ goal within 26 hours.

Summary

  • Campaign: Independent (goteo.org)
  • Campaign date: 2014-02 (closes 28 February, 2014)
  • Campaign status: open
  • Campaign backers: ?
  • Campaign raised: €? of 21655
  • Project type: existing
  • Project license: GPL

Outcomes

TBC

Commentary

Snake

“Snake: the privacy-aware social network. An end-to-end encrypted social network that is easy to use and protects your privacy from evil hackers, storage providers and overly curious government agencies.”

The campaign page states that the team has a “serious design document and about 20k lines of code of the prototype implementation”.

Summary

  • Campaign: Indiegogo
  • Campaign date: 2014-02 (closes 11 February, 2014)
  • Campaign status: open
  • Campaign backers: ?
  • Campaign raised: €? of 50021
  • Project type: new
  • Project license: AGPL

Outcomes

TBC

Commentary