GnuPG Fundraising Rally

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Saturday 10 June 2017

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GnuPG needs your support to help protect online privacy.

Activists, journalists, lawyers, and many others rely on GnuPG to protect their communication.

And, nearly all free software-based operating systems (which are used by more than two-thirds of the servers running the Internet) rely on GnuPG to verify the integrity of system updates.

For the past 20 years, GnuPG has helped protect online communication

Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), describes GnuPG as "the way that I most often communicate with people who are in need around the world."

Sheera Frenkel, Foreign Correspondent for BuzzFeed News, relates: "As a news organization, we’re trained on using GPG. "It’s about your sources and what happens to them when you leave the country and you publish that explosive story and the government is looking for the whistleblower that handed you that key piece of information."

And famously, GnuPG was Edward Snowden’s tool of choice to securely communicate with journalists about the NSA mass surveillance leaks.

GnuPG is not only used to encrypt email.

GnuPG protects software updates for nearly all free software operating systems, which power two-thirds of all servers on the Internet. And, GnuPG is widely used by organizations and companies. Now, maybe you don’t use GnuPG to encrypt your email. Nevertheless, some journalists whose work you value rely on GnuPG to protect their sources, some activists fighting for a cause that you sympathize with rely on GnuPG to protect their communication, and some lawyers speaking with their clients rely on GnuPG to help protect attorney-client conversations. And, free software-based operating systems use GnuPG to verify software updates.