This month's highlights include: the completion of the MW4ALL 2.0 project, our secure file transfer web app; an extension to the Pro Bono Security Consulting Program; and security audits for Blank, Mina Foundation and Tezos Foundation projects.

September 2021

The NGI Trust-funded MW4ALL 2.0 project, aimed at building a secure file transfer product based on the Magic Wormhole protocol, concluded in August. Over the 11 months of the project, we made great progress towards building a Magic Wormhole-based secure file transfer web application. Magic Wormhole is a protocol that allows for the rapid and secure sharing of data between two parties without either needing to know the other’s identity. To learn more about the project and our lessons learned, click below.

We have removed the application deadline for our pro bono security consulting services program to facilitate the opportunity for applications from a greater number of qualifying projects. The program is designed to support privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) that face significant resource constraints. We invite open source and non-profit PETs that are aligned with Least Authority’s mission to “advance digital security and preserve privacy as a fundamental human right” to apply.

Roadwork Ahead: Evaluating the needs of FOSS communities working on digital infrastructure in the public interest

Lindinger, Elisa, et al. (2020) for Implicit Development Environments.

‘This report explores the unique nature of the community that builds and maintains free and open-source software (FOSS) and the role that community takes in shaping an open Internet... Based on these insights, this report proposes recommendations of how funders can support the FOSS community more effectively.'

Read the report

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Coming soon – End of 2021

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