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>Fun fact: the Broadcasting Board of Governors also pays for free crypto audits (from some very strong firms) for privacy and anonymity tools. Virtually all the
by Tiksi 10y ago
>Fun fact: the Broadcasting Board of Governors also pays for free crypto audits (from some very strong firms) for privacy and anonymity tools. Virtually all the privacy tools you've heard about have had several tens of thousands of dollars worth of audit dollars spent by the BBG to make sure they're not endangering people.
Are the reports from these audits publicly available? Seems like it would be an interesting bit of data to read through.
- tptacek 10y agoI don't know; I know they're sent directly to the projects, and I know some of them have been made public, but I don't know if all of them have.
- Tiksi 10y agoThanks, I'll have to look into that. I didn't really expect them to be in a centralized public place but had a sliver of hope that they might be.
- secfirstmd 10y agoIt's not the BBG exactly, it's the Open Tech Fund via Radio Free Asia. Our audit is here: https://secfirst.org/blog.html https://secfirst.org/blog.html I think Cryptocat and a few others have published their audits also. The companies who conducted them have them on their site if I recall.
- tptacek 10y agoI believe (corrections welcome) that OTF is RFA, and RFA is an offshoot of BBG.
- secfirstmd 10y agoYep
- Tiksi 10y agoThanks for the info, I'll have to read up on that. As a side note, Radio Free Asia seems like an unusual organization to be funding security audits.