# Betrusted Software
I am thrilled to announce that I will be collaborating with
[bunnie][bunnie] and [xobs][xobs] on the [betrusted][betrusted]
project with a focus on software.
Betrusted aims to provide a user verifiable, trustworthy device for
secure communications. That's why the device by intentionally limited in
functionality.
This means that Betrusted is not a "smartphone": it can’t browse the web; it
has no “app store”; it won’t hail rides for you; and it can’t help you
navigate a city. However, it will be able to keep your private
conversations private, give you a solid second factor for
authentication, and perhaps provide a safe spot to store digital
currency.
Betrusted software is the application project companion for the
Betrusted hardware device. Going beyond just end-to-end encryption the
Betrusted project ensures that Human-Computer Interaction is also
secure from key loggers and screen grabbers. The software will include
an input method editor to facilitate entering text in both Latin and
Asian languages as well as a graphics toolkit for the ultra low power
display. This project will develop a secure messaging application on
top of these input/output libraries while meeting the constraint that
all software must fit in an extraordinarily small memory footprint (4 MiB RAM).
Later today in Leipzig at the [36th Chaos Communication Congress][36c3]
[bunnie][bunnie] will present
[Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware][trust-hardware].
Stay tuned for further updates on the Betrusted hardware, OS and
software projects.
The [Betrusted Software][betrusted-software] project is made possible with
financial support from [NLnet][nlnet] and the
[NG10 Privacy & Trust Enhancing Technologies Fund][pet].
[[!tag betrusted software risc-v matrix rust]]
[bunnie]: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2019/Fahrplan/speakers/3155.html
[xobs]: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2019/Fahrplan/speakers/4376.html
[betrusted]: https://betrusted.io/
[36c3]: https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2019/36c3-in-leipzig
[trust-hardware]: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2019/Fahrplan/events/10690.html
[betrusted-software]: https://nlnet.nl/project/BetrustedSoftware/
[nlnet]: https://nlnet.nl/
[pet]: https://nlnet.nl/PET/