[brennenHN]

The network connection is an integral part of what makes our system work, and the ubiquity of smartphones is what makes it viable at scale. In terms of trusting a startup, we're working on exposing more of what we're doing to demonstrate its safety. The first part of that is a paper we're working on publishing this Spring at security conferences that details how Clef works using best practices and established security protocols to keep a user's information safe.

[cheald]

I'd like to say, big props for talking earnestly about your solutions to these problems -- that really does go a long way towards building trust. I've seen startups that basically take the "it's secret sauce, we can't tell you how it works!" approach, and that's more or less the kiss of death for anyone in security. :)

[brennenHN]

Thanks! We definitely want to be open about what we're doing to help demonstrate the safety we're offering. Making that dialog intelligible to users of different sophistications in terms of security knowledge is a major challenge for us.