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How should I market my program?
Please I appreciate the advice and assistance, and if anyone knows of a good entry level computer related job that they'd be willing to fudge around a little bit with the technical requirements.... please let me know. I've been really doing this the last few months as a last resort. There ARE NO JOBS here in Gallup, New Mexico, especially if you are white with no college degree.
I've been living in homeless shelters on and off for the past year and a half, and about in january I decided I would try and market one of the encryption programs I had been working on. (The native indian population here are all sellers... jewlery pottery rugs etc etc etc so i thought I'd get in on the action too) But I eventually realized I wasn't going to sell it to anyone, at least not on ebay, at least not without a pitch... so i started thinking about how can I make people want to buy software from me as opposed to some corporation.... Well it eventually evolved into a one-time pad. and I don't know how to market it. On Ebay there is not one current one time pad being offered, so I know it would be very profitable, but then again.... i can't email it (as that would open me up to possibility of violation federal laws regarding export of encryption software.
I was thinking maybe I could find an individual or a corporation who might want to buy the whole shebang from me.... like a broker would a stock.... buy it from me so they might sell it for a much higher price to a software corporation. I'm talking about all rights, source code etc. Or even just to sell to individual proprietorship/small businesses. You could probably sell a single user license for $1,000 to say an attorney or a banker, of course a license that would allow them to distribute limited number of copies to clients.
Or of course there is Ebay and craigslist. But there is the whole law dealing with exportation of software greater than 128 bit security.... And I'd need someone with HTML experience to help advertise, maybe another partner to take my code and put it into a windows GUI app to give it that flashy feel. (its just a console app right now), and I also want to make a powerpoint demonstration to help potential buyers understand the technical aspects of the program and also why its the most secure encryption program on the market.
Anyways How much do you think I could sell a 'One-time Pad' encryption software for? End user licenses vs. to a comercial organization to market it as their own?
Well anyways the computer lab is closing down but I will post the technical details of my one time pad program and the accompanying key generator tomorrow if anyone is interested.
I've been living in homeless shelters on and off for the past year and a half, and about in january I decided I would try and market one of the encryption programs I had been working on. (The native indian population here are all sellers... jewlery pottery rugs etc etc etc so i thought I'd get in on the action too) But I eventually realized I wasn't going to sell it to anyone, at least not on ebay, at least not without a pitch... so i started thinking about how can I make people want to buy software from me as opposed to some corporation.... Well it eventually evolved into a one-time pad. and I don't know how to market it. On Ebay there is not one current one time pad being offered, so I know it would be very profitable, but then again.... i can't email it (as that would open me up to possibility of violation federal laws regarding export of encryption software.
I was thinking maybe I could find an individual or a corporation who might want to buy the whole shebang from me.... like a broker would a stock.... buy it from me so they might sell it for a much higher price to a software corporation. I'm talking about all rights, source code etc. Or even just to sell to individual proprietorship/small businesses. You could probably sell a single user license for $1,000 to say an attorney or a banker, of course a license that would allow them to distribute limited number of copies to clients.
Or of course there is Ebay and craigslist. But there is the whole law dealing with exportation of software greater than 128 bit security.... And I'd need someone with HTML experience to help advertise, maybe another partner to take my code and put it into a windows GUI app to give it that flashy feel. (its just a console app right now), and I also want to make a powerpoint demonstration to help potential buyers understand the technical aspects of the program and also why its the most secure encryption program on the market.
Anyways How much do you think I could sell a 'One-time Pad' encryption software for? End user licenses vs. to a comercial organization to market it as their own?
Well anyways the computer lab is closing down but I will post the technical details of my one time pad program and the accompanying key generator tomorrow if anyone is interested.
To think there are people who treat lists of steps to manipulate numbers as weapons. It makes me sick. The same goes for any controversy related to DEF CON.
Anyway, I think you'll have a hard time marketing that. One-time pads are not particularly practical compared to other strong (and free) encryption algorithms like AES. The people who don't know about those don't know anything about encryption, and the people who do know would just use any of the many existing packages.
Anyway, I think you'll have a hard time marketing that. One-time pads are not particularly practical compared to other strong (and free) encryption algorithms like AES. The people who don't know about those don't know anything about encryption, and the people who do know would just use any of the many existing packages.
wtf... sounds like you need to get the hell out of Gallup. The program will probably not sell as helios stated. The munitions grade the military puts on encryption is ridiculous.
Precisely my point in not trusting DES, AES or RSA. The fact that it is provable that every one of those algorithms is crackable in a finate number of steps freightens me to death.
Apart from that I don't quite follow you guys.... what do you mean exactly? 'munitions grade'? i'm not saying anything about defcon.... how does it relate?
Apart from that I don't quite follow you guys.... what do you mean exactly? 'munitions grade'? i'm not saying anything about defcon.... how does it relate?
| Precisely my point in not trusting DES, AES or RSA. The fact that it is provable that every one of those algorithms is crackable in a finate number of steps freightens me to death. |
| what do you mean exactly? 'munitions grade'? |
| i'm not saying anything about defcon.... how does it relate? |
I find a society in which some numbers are considered illegal, disgusting.
Well I have taken a plethora of steps to ensure that the numbers are very random. This is just to start, there is not 1, not 2, not 3, not 5, not 10, but 27,000 different Pseudo Random Numbers Generators from which my Propriety RNG selects based on user defined input to generate the numbers from. It goes on and on. And I allow the user to make the file as 'arbitrarily' random as he/she wants by allowing the user to 'swipe' the key file an arbitrary number of times with a different seed and different RNG each time. And that is just to start. It'll beat by far any encryption scheme based on AES or DES etc alone.
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PROTIP: Applying the same algorithm to a set n>1 times doesn't increase the entropy of the set.
To put it simply, you're not going to be beat the existing algorithms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cryptographically_secure_pseudorandom_number_generators
To put it simply, you're not going to be beat the existing algorithms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cryptographically_secure_pseudorandom_number_generators
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Every time a 'swipe' is done over the key file you are using a different one of the 27,000 RNG's.
Do these 27k different PRNG happen to be linear congruential generators with different values of a, c, and m? Because if they are, I have some bad news for you.
well if wikipedia would post source code of mersenne twisters and the glub glub shun i could maybe incorporate it into my program.
There's plenty of MT19937 of implementations, but that's not really useful since it's not cryptographically secure.
As for Blum Blum Shub, the formula is right there in the article. Just grab GMP and use it.
As for Blum Blum Shub, the formula is right there in the article. Just grab GMP and use it.
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It's all about features. I would also like to add, that an encryption program isn't going to give much money unless there's something special in it or you have complete ignorance in your area who buy because it sounds good and makes them look cool.
Look at Windows. They have more features than most and they thrive. No one gives a shit about the security, as long as they can get their cool crash screens, built in anti-virus that slows your entire computer down, and a firewall that protects against virtually nothing.
Look at Windows. They have more features than most and they thrive. No one gives a shit about the security, as long as they can get their cool crash screens, built in anti-virus that slows your entire computer down, and a firewall that protects against virtually nothing.
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That theory pretty much sums up Wal-Marts success too. Full of trash, shoplifters, and long slow moving lines. Hey but at least your not middle class.
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