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Comment by davidstrauss

2 hours ago

Hi, I'm David, founding product lead.

Our entire team will be at FOSDEM, and we'd be thrilled to meet more of the Mullvad team. Protecting systems like yours is core to us. We want to understand how we put the right roots of trust and observability into your hands.

Edit: I've reached out privately by email for next steps, as you requested.

Hi David. Great! I actually wasn't planning on going due to other things, but this is worth re-arranging my schedule a bit. See you later this week. Please email me your contact details.

As I mentioned above, we've followed systemd's development in recent years with great interest, as well as that of some other projects. When I started(*) the System Transparency project it was very much a research project.

Today, almost seven years later, I think there's a great opportunity for us to reduce our maintenance burden by re-architecting on top of systemd, and some other things. That way we can focus on other things. There's still a lot of work to do on standardizing transparency building blocks, the witness ecosystem(**), and building an authentication mechanism for system transparency that weaves it all together.

I'm more than happy to share my notes with you. Best case you build exactly what we want. Then we don't have to do it. :)

*: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/system-transparency-future

**: https://witness-network.org