For $800 you can buy internet engineers' answer to US government spying
The long-awaited response from internet engineers to Edward Snowden's revelations of mass surveillance by the US government has been launched in Berlin.
The CrypTech project launched an alpha prototype of its open-source crypto-vault at the 96th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and held a two-day workshop prior to the meeting to walk a closed group of net nerds through it.
The prototype will be shown at several encryption sessions at the conference later this week, and the team is selling a small initial batch of the cards – between 25 and 50 of them – online for $800. "Building open-source hardware is expensive," the group notes. The units will be shipped in September. At the time of writing, just two had been sold.
