On 02/12/2015 12:35 AM, taltman wrote: > Is there any way to purchase these items where a portion of the proceeds > goes to supporting GnuPG?
Indirectly, I'd say. I think that if you stay in Europe, being a FSFE member, you'll get its member card with OpenPGPcard feature. I'm sure that it will improve the eco system around GnuPG, although it's not directly supporting GnuPG development. Besides, it gives her good opportunity to consider the importance and difficulty of controling her own computing, by a concrete example of card reader implementation and card implementation. Buying OpenPGPcard implementations (instead of other card implementations of PKCS) also benefits GnuPG development indirectly. Because OpenPGPcard specification is published, and its functionality is clear enough. Well, PKCS is published, YES... but supporting cards other than OpenPGPcard specification is very difficult for free software project, in general, because the standard practice assumes non-free environment and the industry tends to be unfriendly to free software. Buying original OpenPGPcard implementation would be better, so that we can support publishing OpenPGPcard specification as free specification. Perhaps, you'd like more free implementation of OpenPGPcard, but (partially) non-free implementation also works. In the current situation, I never accuse users/developers of non-free OpenPGPcard implementation. It's not ideal, but it would be an important step towards better control of our own computing. Difficulty is... for card readers. I only know one free (as in freedom) implementation which connects physical card, that's CryptoStick (now, new project name, Nitrokey), which combines physical OpenPGPcard into a token. Lastly and unlikely, if you stay in Japan, being a FSIJ member, you'll automatically get the pressure of buying FST-01 as Gnuk Token (or NeuG standalone). :-) I'm selling FST-01 so that I could have more time for GnuPG development, and I'd like to invite more developers into this area, while I'd like to encourage Chinese Industry for free (as in freedom) hardware design. --
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