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Theme fund: NGI0 Commons Fund
Start: 2025-10
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Husk

Pass-through solution for automatic OpenPGP encryption

Husk is an email filter (milter) for MTAs which encrypts emails while they pass through it. It facilitates Web-of-Trust technologies to use decentralized and federated certificate authorities as sources for authenticated OpenPGP certificates. It aims to reduce the amount of administrative effort of obtaining and keeping them up to date by establishing narrow, focused trust delegations. Husk can be used to encrypt emails for services which cannot encrypt on their own – like notification systems or issue trackers, or being used at the end of transport to implement zero-access encryption (for email at rest).

Husk is written in Rust and uses Sequoia PGP for encryption and certificate handling.

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    This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).