You should have done this 20y ago
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https://vaultone.com
Add to the question whether you have kids or not in home.
Looking at the bigger picture here, US has always been the closest thing to the Free Market idea, but lately, the government has been taking some measures that go against this idea, this is one of them.
This is a good point. We ourselves use and contribute to many open source software and we are constantly debating if we could open source at leat part of the stack.
The problem is that some parts of VaultOne may be patented in the near future to protect our IP, in the interest of investors.
For large contracts we already make the code available for review under a NDA.
HSM stands for Hardware Security Module, which is a physical appliance that safeguards cryptographic keys.
We use the HSM to store sensitive data.
We have a component called 'Connector', which acts as a proxy between the user and the server, this component handles the authentication part of the RDP and SSH protocols.
The whole process is transparent for the user, the user clicks to connect to a server and 'magically' the authenticated session is on the user's browser window.
Yes, it's software on the cloud, you don't have to install anything. Nevertheless, your passwords and keys are stored in a HSM on the cloud. Thanks.
The blockchain is not currently fit for most "real world problems", because the way it achieves consensus and performance, but there are initiatives like the one below to change that: