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Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize


prizes is an initiative by the French Interministerial Digital Directorate. They are awarded to maintainers of critical free and open source projects.

The jury, made up of public officials from the Ministries of Education and Youth, ANSSI and DINUM, recognised the importance of dnsmasq and its ongoing development for network security. Like many Free Software projects, dnsmasq started as a creation for it's own sake, but it has been kept alive and developing for a quarter of a century because of the feedback that has come from its role in the outside world, and the recognition, small and large, that it makes a difference. Dnsmasq was nominated by Samuel Bizien-Filippi, system administrator at Pôle d'expertise de la régulation numérique(PEReN) (Center of Expertise in Digital Regulation), motivated his choice by writing:

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