What is the benefit of a "closed system environment" ? If nothing else a fully integrated public key cryptography platform would provide intrinsic decentralized trust while the service users pay for would be in the app/site integration.
Thanks What is the benefit of a "closed system environment" ? If nothing else a fully integrated public key cryptography platform would provide intrinsic decentralized trust while the service users pay for would be in the app/site integration.
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Thanks What is the benefit of a "closed system environment" ? If nothing else a fully integrated public key cryptography platform would provide intrinsic decentralized trust while the service users pay for would be in the app/site integration.
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There are a couple of benefits to the closed system.
First of all, there is less chance of leaks in the system as you do not have to cater for dozens of platforms, for instance email clients. This increases the security level.
Second, by centralizing it, we can offer a lot more control for the corporate user. Management can mange the communication flow, where if it was completely decentralized, that would be very difficult.
Finally, it gives us a little bit more flexibility in the future to add functionality or implement different native applications.
A side benefit is that it is much easier to use and to set up for the user.
So all in all, I am confident we made the right choice to develop it in this manner. What is your opinion?
Lykle
Thank you for taking the time to reply to my question.
It seems to me that rather that you are trying to build a
complete communication suite for enterprise customers.
But there is little incentive for me as a security conscious
user to use yet another platform for communication when
(for example) Gmail is secure enough for sending sensitive
business material even in plain text unless a government agency
is after someone or their data.
I used the term decentralized to describe how trust in security
and data integrity is implemented within the system. How do can you
be sure that the sender and recipient are who you think they are?
How can you send data between users without sending any passwords ever?
to the chagrin of the US federal government with the advent of publicly
available public-key cryptography software.
By using two-part keys, a private and a public key, users can securely
send each other data without ever needing to transmit sensitive information.
The secure communication problem is "solved" for years to come until
someone figures out how to perform rapid integer factorization. What is
NOT solved is how to take data to and from various programs, web sites, apps,
and other sources ... and then encrypt on one end ... and then read
and decrypt the encrypted data on the other end transparently. I see
a massive opportunity from this perspective.
of the very high level of security such a last-mile encryption/decryption
capability would provide. While many security products currently exist, none
I can think of can do this.
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of the aforementioned capabilites into existing apps / websites / programs.
Take care,
Adam