After fierce competition, twelve potential beneficiaries were selected from a total of 71 applications and currently are undergoing legal eligibility check. Pre-selected projects come from seven different EU countries and upon receiving legal confirmation will begin testing and validating their solutions within NGI ASSURE Business and Technical Support Programme.

Shortlisted Projects

1. OqsproviderPost-quantum/quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms for OpenSSL
2. NeoChatNative Matrix encrypted instant messaging client
3. Reinstatement of crypto.signTextCryptographic signatures brought back to the browser
4. Standardizing KEMTLSPost-quantum TLS without handshake signatures
5. Safe2Send
   Noise protocol based federated instant messaging
6. FobnailRemote attestation delivered locally
7. TvixAlternative Rust-based software build transparency
8. KatzenMeta-data resistant instant messaging over the Katzenpost mixnet
9. lpnTPMTPM 2.0 compliant open hardware Trusted Platform Module
10. LumoSQL at-rest data security
    Modern embedded database with encryption and signed data
11. Great Black Swamp
    Decentralized cloud storage with provider-independent security
12. OpenCryptoHWCGRA- based reconfigurable open-source cryptographic IP cores

Apart from receiving up to €50.000 equity-free funding per project, the winners are entitled to receive technical and business support, during a 6 to 12-months-long support programme.

NGI ASSURE Project goal is to support projects that design and engineer reusable building blocks for the Next Generation Internet as part of a complete, strong chain of assurances for all stakeholders regarding the source and integrity of identities, identifiers, data, cyber physical systems, service components and processes.

The consortium behind the project continues to organise further Open Calls for applications with the next closing on 1st December. Applicants are welcome to submit their application here: https://ngi-assure-opencall.fundingbox.com

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