Voice crypto: the last crypto taboo

David Honig honig at sprynet.com
Tue Aug 7 07:27:42 PDT 2001


At 06:05 PM 8/6/01 +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote:
>On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, David Honig wrote:
>
>> And nautilus and PGPfone.  Maybe on a pocket PC if they have
>> decent audio.  How do you make money on this approach, though?
>
>By selling wireless bandwidth? Hardware? Leather accessoires and GUI
>skins? Consulting?

The future of crypto is selling faceplates...

>I don't think the apps themselves should be commercial. It only leads to
>featuritis, lousy code and backdoors.

Yeah, you need open code to be trusted, but this leads to the bizmodel
problems ("opportunities").  

"Integration services" / "branding" for the less competent/more busy/less
interested, perhaps.





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