DuckDuckGo, the privacy search engine, has contributed to OSTIF for a third time by donating $25,000 USD. The charitable giving as part of DuckDuckGo’s annual program Spread Privacy is special, as the funds are not allocated to any specific project. This contribution helps OSTIF tremendously and allows the organization to…
Amazon Web Services Supports Open Source Technology Improvement Fund Amir Montazery, Managing Director, Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc (OSTIF) The OSTIF team is absolutely thrilled to announce that we’ve reached an agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide $500,000 in funding. The funding from AWS will help OSTIF…
Today OSTIF is thrilled to release the Independent Security Audit Impact Report. This report is the culmination of over a year’s worth of work that OSTIF organized thanks to funding from Google and OpenSSF. “I am extremely proud of this work and what OSTIF continues to accomplish. Organizations like Google,…
Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is thrilled to announce its first philanthropic partnership with Omidyar Network (ON). OSTIF is joining a strong network of open source advocates and specialists under the ON portfolio to further the Open and Secure Internet Ecosystem. “This is a significant accomplishment for OSTIF and expands…
Duckduckgo, the privacy search engine, has contributed to OSTIF for a second time by donating $25,000 USD. Their site that tracks their charitable donations Spread Privacy has the official announcement. These funds are not allocated to any specific project, which helps OSTIF tremendously by allowing us to spend resources on…
After months of fundraising, we have reached our goal to fund the Unbound DNS audit! We would like to thank the primary supporters of this security review, Private Internet Access and Let's Encrypt. Unbound DNS is DNS server software that offers both DNSSEC and DNS-over-TLS (aka DoT) functionality. It is…
It has been a while since we have done a round of updates on what we are working on. We have a number of projects that are currently active and more starting up. Throughout 2019 we expect to finish more than twice as many total projects and to continue with…
OSTIF is Registered and Verified on Benevity Benevity is a charity donation platform that allows employees at participating companies to directly donate to causes that they support. Hundreds of large companies use Benevity to help their employees with charitable giving. (Google, Apple, Microsoft, ADP, Prudential, Samsung, and many others) Our…
2017 Financial Report for the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc. In 2017 OSTIF experienced substantial growth, and expanded our reach to multiple new areas of computing and software safety. We conducted an audit of OpenVPN 2.4.0 in partnership with QuarksLab and launched our bug bounty program. This document is…
OSTIF in 2018 - Our Plans for the Future 2017 was a wild ride, with OSTIF raising roughly double the funds that we did the year prior. We've learned a lot along the way, and are working hard to get even more done in 2018. These plans include widening support…