Oh, and if you tack on full IPv6 support, I can pay in Catcoin, although it will probably cost me more in legal fees if euros are involved too.
Jukka: What do you think about floating an indiegogo campaign to fund the stage-1 design/estimation work, and have a 'stretch goal' of getting a legal opinion on how to use https://cryptostocks.com to fund the remainder FYI, if Jaltman gets a coinbase acccount he can easily get dollars from you. On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:48:17PM +0200, 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? > > 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 <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 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soul grid.coop Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, nor try buy a hacker who makes money by the megahash _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info