= Contract 'EasyGpg' 2016

Scheduled contract time line: Januar 2016 - June 2017 (extended to Sept 2017).

== Results (preliminary)

* An RFC-draft and rationale how to initiate an encrypted communication via the email-address.
  See [[https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD|WKD/WKS overview page]]. Initially published mid 2016
  and refined with stakeholders.

* Improvements to the crypto engine GnuPG to support more trust-levels and the new 
  pubkey discovery methods for clients and email providers
  have been implemented ('in upstream') and published with GnuPG 2.2 (August 2017)
  and Gpg4win 3.0.0(rc).

* Implementations of an easier embarking process to be ready for end-to-end crypto
  and other crypto improvements for Thunderbird/Enigmail (GNU/Linux, Windows) and KMail (GNU/Linux) have been 
  given upstream so they are scheduled to be released with the next stable release  
  (e.g. ~KD~EPIM 17.10).

* Stakeholders like email providers and mail user agent developers were approached
  to gather feedback and gain support. Of the two privacy leading email providers
  in Germany, one added early web key directory support in Dez 2016. 

Resulting software improvements and designs have been 
developed within the upstream Free Software initiatives
as far as possible, in the open and under a compatible Free Software license. 

== Goals

* Improve the user experience of end-to-end cryptography based on ~OpenPGP
  for email.
* Design a new trust model that allows to automate key creation and
  cert exchange inspired by ~TOFU or ~TUFC concepts. 
  Use the existing relationship between user and email service provider (ESP). 
* Convince email service providers to offer a certificate discovery service
  for their users. Offer a fallback solution for testing the resulting implementations.
* Implement the email client side for Thunderbird and Kontact Mail.
* Improve the usability for Thunderbird and Kontact Mail 
  by adding comfort options for storing encrypted emails.


== Principal BSI

The German Federal Office for Information Security 
([[https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN|BSI]]) contracted 
[[https://intevation.de|Intevation]] and
[[https://g10code.com|g10 Code]].

The 
[[http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/gpg4win-users-de/2015-September/000803.html|public tender]]
was published in September 2015.
The bid was accepted in the last days of December 2015. 

== Team 
The team consist of the German companies Intevation GmbH
and g10 code GmbH. As a subcontractor
[[https://www.kdab.com/|KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH & Co. KG]]
will help with the Kontact Mail and Kleopatra implementation parts.

== Contact

Prefered: via the public channels of
[[https://gpg4win.org/community.html|Gpg4win]] or
[[https://gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.html|GnuPG]].

Alternatively send email to 
[[mailto:emanuel.schuetze@intevation.de|Emanuel]] (~69~A911FC)
or 
[[mailto:bernhard.reiter@intevation.de|Bernhard]] 
([[http://intevation.de/~bernhard/bernhard_gpgkey.asc|EFF5D42A]])
from Intevation. Encryption appreciated. ;-)

== Development Lab
//Documenting work and design processes//

* [[/VisionAndStories|Vision and some user stories]] (Meeting April 2016)
* [[/PubkeyDistributionConcept|Pubkey Distribution Concept]] (in discussion)
* [[/Components|Components]] (work in progress)
* [[/UIIntegration|User Interface Interaction with GnuPG]] (work in progress)
* [[/AutomatedEncryption|AutomatedEncryption]]
* [[/OutlookUi|Outlook Ui for Automated / Easy Encryption]]