“Unfortunately a lot of technological effort in the past 40 years has gone into NOT trusting people and locking the data away, so in the absence of good technology people establish and maintain trust manually. Now is the time that's no longer tenable. The scale has passed its tipping point.”

“Public key infrastructure is pretty nerdy stuff, but it's important. We see ourselves as sort of revolutionaries—or rebels, maybe, depending on your perspective—trying to democratize the space.”