Provided with two columns in German & English Language / Zweispaltig in
deutscher & englischer Sprache. BIG SEVEN STUDY about 7 open source
Crypto-Messengers for Encryption at the Desktop: A contribution in the
cryptographic-discussion - The two security researchers David Adams
(Tokyo) and Ann-Kathrin Maier (Munich), who examined in their BIG SEVEN
study seven well-known encryption applications for e-mail and instant
messaging out of the open source area, performed then a deeper IT-audit
for the acquainted software solution GoldBug.sf.net. The audit took into
account the essential criteria, study fields and methods on the basis of
eight international IT-audit manuals and was carried out in 20
dimensions. It identifies Ten Trends in the Crypto-Messaging. Security
researcher David Adams from Tokyo about the published BIG SEVEN
CRYPTO-study: "We looked at the seven major open source programs for
encrypted online-communication and identified ten trends in the
Crypto-Messaging area. One of the important trends is the feature, that
the users should be able to define a so-called end-to-end encrypting
password by themselves manually". The software "GoldBug - email client
and instant messenger" here was ahead with excellent results and is not
only very trustworthy and compliant to international IT-audit manuals
and safety standards, GoldBug also scores in comparison and in the
evaluation of the single functions in much greater detail than the other
comparable open source crypto messenger. Co-author of the study
Ann-Kathrin Maier from Munich confirms: "We have then our Messenger
study deepened with a detailed audit of the crypto-program GoldBug,
which received excellent results for encrypted email and secure online
chat. By our code-reviews we can confirm the trustworthiness of this
open source encryption in GoldBug." Numerous details have been analyzed
by various methods, compared and also strategically evaluated by the two
authors regarding the current encryption di