Do you accept euros? :) I just think that this might be a good time to get European funding for Internet security projects like this?
Personally, I feel a bit bad that a great system like OpenAFS needs to be stitched with a separate VPN and file encryption software, when it could be all built-in. Best Sent from my iPhone > On 17.2.2014, at 18.35, Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2/17/2014 11:10 AM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: >> Could some of the professionals here please estimate a direct dollar cost for >> such a thing? > > Who is going to pay for the design and estimation efforts? > > There are many approaches that can be used but before selecting one over > another it is important to perform a threat analysis to determine which > risks the solution must protect against and what the use cases are. > > For any estimate to be reasonable there will need to a work break down > of the implementation tasks. > > It would not be unreasonable for such a design analysis and work break > down to cost $10,000. > > An implementation that could be used by banks or government agencies > would easily cost hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars and take a year > or more. > > Jeffrey Altman > > > > > > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
