Users don't care. They'll use whatever is given to them, as long as there is no friction. That's why PGP-encrypted email never took off, except as something that tptacek likes to argue against.
Concretely, we (the security-conscious community) need to convince people (engineers, executives, managers) at Google, Microsoft, Oracle, countless other companies, and a myriad of open source communities that this is something important to build, invest, and collaborate on.
The first part is messaging. Then comes networking, convincing individuals in private. Then comes public collaboration. Proof of concepts, test networks, RFCs, production apps.
But until there's a need and money, this won't happen. And it'll be people arguing past each other on the internet.
Users don't care. They'll use whatever is given to them, as long as there is no friction. That's why PGP-encrypted email never took off, except as something that tptacek likes to argue against.
Concretely, we (the security-conscious community) need to convince people (engineers, executives, managers) at Google, Microsoft, Oracle, countless other companies, and a myriad of open source communities that this is something important to build, invest, and collaborate on.
The first part is messaging. Then comes networking, convincing individuals in private. Then comes public collaboration. Proof of concepts, test networks, RFCs, production apps.
But until there's a need and money, this won't happen. And it'll be people arguing past each other on the internet.