On Feb 17, 2014, at 19:48 , Jukka Tuominen wrote:
> Do you accept euros? :)
>
> I just think that this might be a good time to get European funding for
> Internet security projects like this?
It would probably take much more than adequate funding for a solid
implementation to get such a feature in. In particular, more funding - and more
time than a funding agency will ever grant you for delivering something.
> 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.
Combining tools doing their jobs well is not a bad strategy. Using EncFS with
OpenAFS as the backend sounds interesting. Alas, it seems a bit stale.
Stephan
>
> Best
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 17.2.2014, at 18.35, Jeffrey Altman <jalt...@your-file-system.com> 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
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