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The transport is probably the easiest part of the whole system; the hardest part is convincing people of the need, followed by "we're the central point of secure to insecure" not itself being a massive monitoring target. UI/UX, key management (and directory management, kind of the same thing), and running the gateways themselves are kind of a problem too.

I hope they support multiple providers (including setting it up yourself) for Circle -> PSTN/SIP/etc., to avoid this problem. (I know Jon Callas, I guess I should ask him)

They could probably charge $500/mo for 10 users for secure email/voice/sms/etc. for groups, vs. $20/mo for individuals, if there was zero security exposure to the central servers for the groups, and if the groups could locally connect to their own/existing infrastructure. Add some trivial Mobile Device Management (MDM) functionality (forcing passcodes, remote wipe, etc. -- trivial stuff, not the huge monstrosity of corporate MDM products).

Basically, BES + VoIP for non-dead (iOS+Android, vs. BB) platforms.



Are you familiar with the milkfsh project? I use it to talk with my brother, but getting anyone else I know to set it up has been impossible.

http://www2.milkfish.org.sipwerk.com/?page_id=2




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