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Snowden's Goals for Software Developers

From HOPE X - A Conversation with Edward Snowden

Snowden's goals are GoodCrypto's long term goals.

• Software tools
  • GPG
  • Tor
• No association records
  • Resistant to traffic analysis
  • Padding
    • even if there is a performance cost
    • counter analysis of packet size, signalling speed, etc.
• Red team
  • Peer review model
  • "We need people to attack these systems. We need people to work as adversaries to try to find holes, so we can fix them."
• User experience
  • "GPG is robust and pretty reliable encryption. Unfortunately it's damn near unusable."
    • Command line
    • Key management
• Encryption
• Mixed routing
  • "shared infrastructure that divorces the individual connection from the individual origination point"
  • Tor
• Non-attributable communications, or Unattributable internet access (UIA)
  • Available
  • Easy
  • Transparent
  • Reliable
• Global
• Think about:
  • Adversarial targets
  • "How are the worst people on Earth going to try to subvert and break your system?"