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CRF Community Announcement
For immediate release: Oct. 3, 2003
CRF Welcomes Support from Squirrelmail Team for HighFire
HighFire Work to Benefit All Squirrelmail Users, Too
San Francisco, CA — The CryptoRights Foundation today extended its gratitude to
the Squirrelmail Development Team for outstanding support of
the HighFire human rights communications system project. By making significant changes
to the Squirrelmail Web-based e-mail server source code, the Squirrelmail
team has enabled CRF's HighFire R&D Team to much more rapidly develop
several essential features of HighFire's messaging capabilities, including
the ability to easily automate strong authentication of e-mail attachments
which would otherwise take new users a substantial amount of time to perform
on a message-by-message basis.
CRF also thanks Squirrelmail's Translation Team for accepting related
CRF-sponsored Squirrelmail authentication and privacy source code
enhancements, enabling the rapid translation of the HighFire user
interface into up to 42 languages. The broader availability of
HighFire's features in multiple languages will directly benefit CRF's
HighFire users and administrators at non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) in the human rights, journalism and humanitarian aid fields
around the world. CRF's Squirrelmail enhancements can also benefit
Squirrelmail's 4 million world-wide users.
"This is a nice example of two open source development projects
cooperating to benefit each other and the public," said HighFire
principal investigator Dave Del Torto. "The Squirrelmail folks have
shown a willingness to contribute to the safety of CRF's clients doing
social justice work, and since Squirrelmail is already the most popular
and accessible Web-based email system, this allows CRF to return the
favor to Squirelmail's existing userbase. We look forward to many more
such cooperative events as we roll out the first prototypes of the
HighFire hardware and software components to NGOs."
Background
About CryptoRights Foundation:
The CryptoRights Foundation (CRF) is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to the betterment of humanity through the protection of
communications as well as the preservation of freedom of speech
and research on privacy protocols in the public domain.
http://www.cryptorights.org/
About HighFire:
Human rights and journalism organizations face tremendous risks around
the world, and because they rely more and more on the Internet and
other public communications technologies, their adversaries make
increasing use of information technology to deter, identify and attack
them, in order to prevent them from uncovering the truth about human
rights abuses. CRF's HighFire system will be a major step toward
providing them with a safe way to communicate information about crimes
against humanity, environmental causes and other extremely sensitive
data which, if it falls into the wrong hands, could endanger
humanitarians and their sources and witnesses.
The HighFire system includes an assessment of the security needs of
human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), a secure messaging
server, secure firewall hardware, and special filtering software
designed to protect NGO users' privacy. In addition, CRF's Client
Services will provide full training for administrators and users, as
well as documentation and technical support.
http://www.cryptorights.org/research/highfire/
About Squirrelmail:
SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4. It
includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and
all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no JavaScript required) for
maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements and
is very easy to configure and install. SquirrelMail has all the
functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME
support, address books, and folder manipulation.
http://www.squirrelmail.org/
Contacts:
Stanton McCandlish, CRF Communications Director
mech@cryptorights.org
+1 415-333-3003
John Nanninga, HighFire Project Lead
john@cryptorights.org
+1 415-333-3003
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