Is it intended for experienced crypto programmers or new folks who want to learn more? Does that question make sense? You didn't give many details (which is fair).
If you're an experienced crypto designer, we'd like to talk to you about volunteering alongside Nate and I as unpaid advisors.
If you're interested in learning more about cryptography, we'd like to talk to you about working on the audit directly, reporting to an advisor. As I understand it, many of these auditor roles will have stipends associated with them.
If you're aware of an elite cadre of crypto people that might be available to serve in the auditor roles, I'd love to know about it. The overwhelming majority of the people that do our crypto challenges have zero prior crypto experience, and many of those are the same people we hope to see staffing Phase 2 of the audit.
Teaching a bunch of developers some new stuff about cryptography would be a nice knock-on benefit of the audit, but it's important that I be clear that the funding for this audit was earmarked for actually improving the security situation for Truecrypt. So we'll probably be somewhat selective about the audit team. I'll have more to say about this next week. This all got sprung on me very quickly, like I said, because of this week's events.
