[freehaven-cvs] Add an attempt at a conclusion

[nickm@seul.org (Nick Mathewson)]

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   still protecting the company's activities from outside observers.
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-[ i think the paper should conclude with an emphasis
-on systemsy stuff, as well as a call for the finance / data security
-industry to explore whether they need anonymity systems.
+[XXX Roger: what did you mean by 'an emphasis on systemsy stuff?' -NM]
 
-how's our performance? what's our strategy for increasing user
-adoption? how does getting more individuals using the system translate
-to increased security for enterprise users? in a sense this is a white
-paper touting our technology and how useful it is, and in another sense
-we're trying to talk up the next people who want to fund us but don't
-realize it yet.]
+Beyond software development and research, much exploration remains
+within the broader financial cryptography community to discover
+appropriate applications and economic models for anonymous
+communication channels.  Despite the potential applications of strong
+traffic analysis resistance in the business world, little effort has
+been spent in solving usability and scalability problems faced by
+these users.
+
+There is reason for hope.  The incentives structure of anonymity
+systems strongly contraindicate in-house measures against traffic
+analysis: an organization using a ``private'' anonymity system cannot
+hide its traffic among traffic from other organizations.  Thus,
+finance organizations that need to resist traffic analysis have an
+incentive to seek common solutions that meet not only their own needs,
+but that will attract as many users as possible.  The more users an
+anonymity system has, the more anonymity it provides
+them.\cite{econymics} The same reasoning gives non-business users an
+incentive to construct their systems to meet the needs of business and
+financial communities.
+
+[XXX We should close with a nice upbeat statement to the effect ``We
+  hope that people will spend lots of money on this problem, and
+  decide to use some of it funding us.'' -NM]
 
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