Comment by ignoramous

Thanks so much for taking time to answer these.

As a fellow founder/eng in the digital consumer privacy space, I can tell you that it remains fringe. And it isn't clear if it will take off in an exponential way anytime soon as, from what I have noticed, VC-backed startups in this space trying to pry out growth have indeed struggled (SilentCircle, as one example). Competing with free [0], as it turns out, may make for a decent-sized lifestyle business, but may not bring in VC-warranted returns (Netflix vs BitTorrent / Spotify vs LimeWire notwithstanding).

Enterprise security and privacy remains very lucrative however, if you are considering pivots :)

Please consider getting ente.io's cryptography reviewed by cryptographers. It does not inspire confidence so much so that I feel ente.io frontends are better used with a tarsnap backend.

Thanks again.

[0] https://kk.org/thetechnium/better-than-fre/