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There are many people in the world.
Billions of people.

Dedicated and focused.

But one really made history within the last decade.
And his achievements are more actual then ever.

Werner Koch  was inspired by a talk of Free Software Evangelist Richard Stallman .
He created a free and open-sourced encryption Software that is the most used free eMail encryption Software nowadays and became very popular by the usage of Edward Snowden .

GPG  (Gnu Pricacy Guard) is the beauty, that he created.
It can be used by everyone for free, but Werner is nearly broke nowadays, earning merely $25,000 a year for a fulltime job, married, with a little daughter in Germany.

Werner thought, people would appreciate and know who created GPG.
While a lot of people are trusting it from a business and non-business perspective, most people really do not know who Werner is. And that GPG is a one-person project that most of the world relies on.

So if privacy is a matter for you, especially you personal or business related one, I really would love to hand over your donation to Werner Koch directly without deductions.

My name is Joachim Kessel and I'm trying to raise some money for Werner Koch, after reading the article below from ProPublica. I'm living in Germany, interestingly not too far away from the location where Werner is living (~50 Km) in Oberhausen. I'm related to Werner Koch in the way that I'd love to see GnuPG being kept alive and for that reason I'm trying to raise some funds for him and his family. All funds will directly go to Werner and his family, without any deduction.

I'm more than happy, if you read through until here.
Please read this article from ProPublica , that inspired me to do this

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Joachim Kessel
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