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# Stronghold Company: RFC 00001

### General Goals and Ideas

- Consultancy on security and stronghold
- Mobile and Desktop Password/Secrets manager
- Stronghold as a Service (cloud backups)
- Stronghold on IPFS or other web3 services
- Peer to Peer Chat app
- Full HSM support for stronghold
- Tauri Plugin
- Stronghold on Hardware - security focused hardware
- Hardware key (YubiKey) support
- Secret injection and management for cloud architectures (something similar to HashiCorp Vault)
- Remote procedures for passwords/secrets (OAuth, OAuth2, OpenID, Decentralized Identity)
- Custom user created procedures 
- Compiler/Interpreter (ability to write programs with a stronghold DSL)
- Software embedding (inject stronghold into existing binary as a secret provider)
- Tainting for secrets (detect and prevent unauthorized access)
- True hardware and software device fingerprinting (device identification)
- expanded permission sets
- expanded Snapshot protocol formats (nested snapshots, destructive copying, rate limiting etc)
- a proper p2p interface (snapshot and stronghold syncing technologies)
- "Internet of Secrets" - full support for secret sharing protocols and other protocols such as multisig, threshold sigs across user run nodes etc 
- Expansion and generalization of modules (aka removal of Crypto.rs, removal of LibSodium etc)
- Secure file formats and documents (Signed documents and files that are tamperproof) 
- Self destroying file formats

### Company Features/Goals

- Flat hierarchy
- Ad Hoc Quorums for making projects and decision making in general
- Full attestation for employees (credit and basic royalty plans)
- Full salary (not region specific) and benefits
- 30 hour work week
- Focus on Open source software
- Guest Seminars 
- No investor driven development
- Environmental Charities and Programs (Carbon Credits etc)
- ISO compliance
- Provably sound code via theorem proves (F*, Coq, Idris etc)
- RFC management system 
- Our own Compliance rules and Protocols

### Action Items

- Setup a Chat - Zulip (Chip) - https://stronghold.zulipchat.com/ - URL is not perminent since company will have a different name. (Tensor)
- Look into Business structures
- Naming 
- ~~Setup a call with the Security Team (Matthias)~~ > zulip
- Company Options:
    - PBC
    - LLC
    - Foundation (Switzerland: Matthias)
    - What Country?
        - Malta LTD (Denjell)
        - US; Delaware, Texas (Tensor)
    - Export Regulation (Denjell)