Ledger to push for open-source transparency to quell Ledger Recover fears
Given the recent community reaction to the announcement of the Ledger Recover service, the Ledger team recently twitter space Address questions and concerns and present a plan for resolving controversial issues.
Discussions in this space revolved around greater transparency in the form of open source code, software verifiability, and better communication of product goals and capabilities.
Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier reiterated the company’s commitment to security and its history of designing secure hardware wallets.
“We want to reiterate the fact that no matter what Ledger does today, yesterday, today or tomorrow, our products will always be safe. [possible]And we don’t compromise on security. “
With that in mind, Gautier recognizes how important ease of use is to leisure users and continues to focus on self-management and engagement with various crypto communities.
A highlight of the discussion was when Ledger Chief Technology Officer Charles Guillemet provided a comprehensive overview of Ledger’s open source roadmap in response to user requests to make the company’s code more verifiable. bottom.
Guillemet admitted that he was surprised by the community’s reaction, but said: “One of the big questions he had was how can we trust the code. So the simple answer is to give users all the tools and all the information they can verify.”
Most of Ledger’s codebase is now open source, but Guillemet announced plans to further accelerate the open source roadmap.
The company aims to open source the Ledger Recover protocol whitepaper, allowing cryptography and security experts to review the whitepaper, and developers to build their own shard backup providers. Additionally, the firmware that implements the Ledger Recover feature will be open sourced, a requirement Guillemet said before releasing the feature to the public.
Prioritizing transparency and verifiability to address community concerns, Ledger has decided to pause the release of the recovery service while we work to refactor the code.
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