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>>"...said the company spent $10 million on encryption technology in early 2014..." What does that mean, exactly? Is it really possible to spend $10 million on
by blakesterz 10y ago
>>"...said the company spent $10 million on encryption technology in early 2014..."
What does that mean, exactly? Is it really possible to spend $10 million on encryption or is that some kind of marketing spin on things? I'm genuinely curious about this.
- dsr_ 10y agoYou can spend $10 million on any project by putting a team of 30 engineers at 150K each on it and letting them buy and deploy 1000 IPsec gateways or SSL accelerators or what have you at a cost of $5500 each including a 15% maintenance contract and internal hosting costs.
- Naritai 10y agoI would guess that the bulk of the costs is installing the processing power that enables the encryption.
- blakesterz 10y agoAh, I just reread that article and now I see: "The current and former employees say he inspired a small team of young engineers to develop more secure code, improve the company’s defenses — including encrypting traffic between Yahoo’s data centers" So that makes more sense now, I guess it's possible to spend that much on "encryption". People and processing power are expensive I suppose.
- Naritai 10y agoThey really are!
- walshemj 10y agoAnd the cost of the people to implement and run the IDS etc $10 mill doesn't go that far in terms of hardware and FTE's.
- droopybuns 10y agoMaybe they bought 250 HSMs.