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diff --git a/doc/history.md b/doc/history.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c611df9 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/history.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +# History +This is a living document that documents the history of the Sigsum project. + +## 2019 +Mullvad VPN announced a project named System Transparency + [\[1\]](https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/6/3/system-transparency-future/). +System Transparency is a security architecture for bare-metal servers that aims +to make a system's boot chain remotely verifiable by any interested party + [\[2\]](https://www.system-transparency.org/). + +Fredrik Strömberg presented the System Transparency design at PUTS + [\[3\]](https://petsymposium.org/2019/files/workshop/abstracts/PUT_2019_paper_32.pdf). +One part of the design included a Certificate Transparency log + [\[4\]](https://mullvad.net/media/system-transparency-rev5.pdf). +Rasmus Dahlberg suggested use of a separate System Transparency log. + +## 2020 +In October, Fredrik Strömberg and Rasmus Dahlberg started focused design +iterations on a transparency log that would be better suited for the System +Transparency project + [\[5\]](https://github.com/system-transparency/stfe/commit/40250377da81864e9e502b803c0543c48e4a0615). + +## 2021 +Linus Nordberg joined the System Transparency logging discussions in January. A +few months later, drafts of the resulting design were presented at PADSEC + [\[6\]](https://web.archive.org/web/20210427203606/https://hopin.com/events/padsec) +and SWITS + [\[7,](https://web.archive.org/web/20210603112144/https://swits.hotell.kau.se/AnnualSeminars/SWITS%202021/SWITS_2021/SWITS2021_Programme.htm) + [8\]](https://web.archive.org/web/20210923134324/https://swits.hotell.kau.se/AnnualSeminars/SWITS%202021/SWITS_2021/SWITS_2021_paper_17.pdf). + +In June, Fredrik Strömberg, Rasmus Dahlberg, and Linus Nordberg decided to +rebrand System Transparency logging as a separate project that is funded but not +governed by Mullvad VPN + [\[9\]](https://git.sigsum.org/sigsum/tree/archive/2021-06-21--meeting-minutes). + +The Sigsum Project launched in October + [\[10\]](). +It is managed by Rasmus Dahlberg (Mullvad VPN) and Linus Nordberg (independent). |