[Cryptography] Wire.com: private communications, always encrypted

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Mon Mar 14 16:56:15 EDT 2016


In article <20160314162329.78a00716 at jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> you write:
>On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:32:16 -0800 Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com>
>wrote:
>> https://wire.com/?hl=en
>> 
>> "Go ahead, make some free, end-to-end encrypted video calls on Wire"
>> 
>> Details of wire.com security:
>> 
>> https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2756350/Wire-Security-Whitepaper.pdf
>> 
>> ------
>> Interesting timing, this wire.com announcement.
>
>Can anyone explain what their business model is? They don't charge
>for the app or for usage, and the money to keep the lights on has to
>come from somewhere.

It's funded by Iconical, "a collective of designers, engineers and
entrepreneurs including Janus Friis" who co-founded Skype.  In this
article they're coy about revenue plans but it appears it'll be like
Skype's freemium model, lots of features for free, extra features for
pay.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/03/wire-communications-skype-janus-friis-app

R's,
John


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