anthropological research on OpenPGP

[BESENCON Sylvain]

Dear Daniel Kahn Gillmor,

My name is Sylvain Besençon, I am an anthropologist from the university
of Fribourg, Switzerland, and I am doing a research for my PhD on the
maintenance work of OpenPGP implementations, not from a technical point
of view but rather from a socio-historical perspective. My objectives
are, on the one hand, to collect information about the history of
OpenPGP (from the very early days up to now), and on the second hand, to
document the maintenance work that is done to keep the protocol and its
implementations secure. However, my interest for OpenPGP goes beyond my
sole academic papers: I love crypto, I love open source and I love
easy-to-use privacy enhancing technologies. This is why I would love to
be able to modestly contribute to this by bringing what I can do, namely
socio-anthropological analyses to document the community effort to
securely deploy such technologies.

I have seen that you are quite active on the mailing list of GnuPG-users
which is where I had your email address, and I was wondering if you
would agree to help me in my research by answering a few questions
during an interview (per video con, phone call or merely email).

I also saw that you participate at the IETF and I was wondering if you
will go to Montreal for the 150th IETF meeting in a few weeks? I might
also be able to come and that would be fantastic to meet you in person
there.

I look forward to hearing from you,
Kind regards,

Sylvain

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Sylvain Besençon ▪︎ Assistant diplômé
Unité anthropologie sociale
Département des sciences sociales
Université de Fribourg
Bld. de Pérolles 90, CH-1700 Fribourg
PER21 - Bureau G320
+41 26 300 78 46
PGP: 9DDA 48E2 24FC A040 6B3A

Blog: https://blog.unifr.ch/cva
Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography:
https://cva.unifr.ch
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