git-futz

Inspiration

In the last few years we have seen many developers of Bitcoin/privacy software being targeted. I want to build a tool that helps developers to contribute anonymously.

What it does

One of the crucial pieces of personally identifiable information about a person is their location. This tool will mask one aspect of that information (their TZ) from a developers contributions to a public repository.

Challenges we ran into

• Figuring out Git internals
• Automating an otherwise manual workflow

What we learned

Even in such a simple case, the early implementation had several bugs that was fixed later. Lesson learned: privacy is hard!

What's next for git-futz

• Support signed commits
• Proper windows support by porting to Powershell
• Explore other workflows that could be supported

Built With

• bash
• git