security

[James A. Donald]

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Scott Kveton wrote:
 > To clarify, I had put that comment _after_ ssh.  I
 > agree that ssh has widespread adoption within its
 > specific niche market (and its a niche market -
 > consumers will not use ssh).

Everyone I know uses ssh.

 > The comment from above was meant to be directed at the
 > other applications mentioned such as IPSec and Tor.
 >
 > James: can you think of any other examples?  So far
 > I'm not convinced with the examples I've been given so
 > far.

Everyone uses VPN.

And some niches are mighty big.  Right now one hell of a
lot more people are using alt.anonymous messages over
OpenPGP than are using OpenID.

The idea that only a tiny handful of geeks are worried
about security just is not so.  Rather, only a tiny
handful of geeks can do security correctly with existing
tools.  Installing a new certificate on a web server
never seems to get any easier.


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