Open Source
Why Open Source?
All of our development efforts at SR2 Communications are released under an open source licence. This is often a condition of the grants that fund our work but we don’t just use the licences to meet contractual requirements. We strongly believe that open source software is the best way to approach the technical needs of civil society organisations.
Kerckhoffs’s Principle is one guiding idea in this approach. The principle holds that a cryptosystem should be secure, even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge1. Kerckhoffs’s principle was later phrased by the American mathematician Claude Shannon as “the enemy knows the system”.