[CryptoParty] GnuPG & Werner Kochs funding problems (or not anymore)

[Ralph Wozelka]

"The man who built the free email encryption software used by
whistleblower Edward Snowden, as well as hundreds of thousands of
journalists, dissidents and security-minded people around the world, is
running out of money to keep his project alive.
..."

http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/02/05/2243258/gpg-programmer-werner-koch-is-running-out-of-money
http://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke

"Update, Feb. 5, 2015, 5:55 p.m.: After this article appeared, Werner
Koch informed us that last week he was awarded a one-time grant of
$60,000 from Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative.
..."

cheers,
ralph