I suspect that John-Doe will go through the normal new-product cycle -- discovery of bugs, slight improvements, and then better integration of user needs. Ultimately, as the product matures, I think that Steve's John Doe will be seen as a revolutionary development in privacy equal to (in a far less technical but more end-user way) PZ's original PGP.

I really don't want to blow my own horn, but Private Idaho is much more than a PGP shell. It has supported remailer operations since it first appeared nearly a year ago. It also started supporting the c2 nym server several months ago. With no disrespect meant to tallpaul or Steve, I hardly think John Doe is revolutionary. I certainly don't consider Private Idaho to be anything other than an efficient, free shell for Windows users to enhance their privacy. And, I have yet to see a crypto/privacy "killer app." I am glad though, to see that other people are going beyond PGP shells and starting to write privacy-oriented applications that use the remailers and nym servers. Keeps me on my toes with new Private Idaho features. But more importantly, the more tools that are out there, the more people will be using them. I've always maintained that the interface is the gating factor to the wide-spread adoption of a technology. Joel