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Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Sun, 07 Feb 1999 20:43:36 +0000
Adam Shostack wrote:
>
> In my experience, those apps that require lots of high quality
> random numbers have also required acceleration, secure key strorage
> and other things, and have sufficient budget to buy from NCipher or
> Rainbow. So these units are unlikely to sell in quantity to business.
>
> If you want to sell to individuals, the $50 price point is
> high for an RNG box. I'll agree that perhaps it is worthwhile, but
> only if all my apps (Netscape, PGP, ssh, IPSec) can take advantage of
> it. I'd be unlikely to buy one because at that price, you won't get
> it to fit in a pccard slot so I can forget its attached to my laptop.
> You arely likely to pass many people's utility test.
Actually, my hardware guy tells me it would be _cheaper_ to make it a PC
card than an external box. I almost believe him. I think we may be able
to offer either.
> So if you want to sell a pile of these, get a designer, and
> make it cool. I'd pay 75 or $100 for a des cracker chip in a box,
> because that would be cool. I can explain that to the non-techie
> people in my office. Think iMac. Think Connection Machine. Think
> blinky lights and translucent plastics.
:-) My worry was that if I add des cracker chips it makes the hardware
harder to verify. I reckoned that was important. I'm a purist.
> Of course, if you just want to make them for hardcore techies,
> thats cool too, but expect to spend a lot of time at the post office
> because distributors are unlikely to pick it up.
I don't particularly want to make them, but I reckon I can. If people
want me to enough, I will.
Cheers,
Ben.
-- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:26