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Market for whole-disk encryption Mac software

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What is the market for whole-disk encryption software for the Mac? It seems to be cornered by PGP right now but I wonder if there's room for another player (me).

Yes, I can write the whole thing, EFI-pre boot prompt and IOKit driver included. The question is should I?

    Thanks, Joel

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I don't think many people need whole-disk encryption; for the vast majority of situations, encrypted home directories are sufficient (and support for this is provided in OS X).

and yet, http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/ , there's much work to be done on it. According to their findings, FileVault on OS X turned out to be the easiest to break.

The market (as in people who will pay) appears to be the enterprise, so how are your sales skills?

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