About CRF — General Information

CryptoRights Mission Statement

Mission:

The CryptoRights Foundation (CRF) is a human rights security organization which brings expertise in the science of cryptography to bear on the security and safety of the social justice community and the general Public. CRF is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization (NGO) with two primary and strongly related tasks: First, CRF promotes global justice through the protection of human rights workers, journalists and humanitarian workers. We do this through educational, research and development projects focussed on protecting their privacy and the security and integrity of the critical information they collect, transmit and communicate for the public good. Second, CRF works to protect and promote freedom of speech for security professionals who do open research in the Public's interest on how to enhance personal privacy and safety in responsible, socially justifiable ways. CRF is a membership organization, and relies on the support of the Public in conducting research and delivering technology, knowledge and other benefits to NGOs and world citizens internationally.

Vision:

In the near term, CRF is: developing a range of integrated open source software and hardware technologies for enhancing safety and security while using common communications media; providing technical support for social justice NGOs worldwide in their use and understanding of privacy-enhancing technologies, and; providing individual and group trainings and educational materials. In the medium term, CRF has seven major research projects, one of which provides a set of extremely high-tech intelligence and information capabilities to social justice organizations, especially the journalism community, for unparalleled, reliable witnessing of societal events and developments, and the other six all represent the core technologies on that platform. In the long run, CRF will provide these digital witnessing, communications and sensitive informamtion handling capabilities into the hands of the world's social justice communities to form a new corps of international witnesses which can protect the disadvantaged, shine the light of empirical truth on injustice and criminal abuses of human beings and protect fundamental human rights.

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