We are talking to some big companies to lend us legitimacy. We just put the web page up a couple of days ago so yes we are an unknown quantity. So is everything that is new or novel.
What we would really like is the new homeland security people in Washington to look at what we are doing. We believe that if we can get the hashes from a few thousand computers, that this would help security agencies with a very useful tool to find terrorists messages imbedded in graphics files (just to give one example of numerous possible applications for this).
Another good example is, lets say we have millions of file hashes, from thousands of computers. Shandra Levy disappears here in Washington, DC. If the police could have run file isolation on her computer as soon as they got access to it, they would have been able to get a lot more information, a lot quicker than they did having to go through her system without it. I know personally how tedious this is. So we see this as a nice police investigative tool.
Also, this would be a nice clearinghouse for any number of hashed based, non-duplicative, backup systems. There is not much since in having several different database systems doing the same thing, when one system would be most optimal.
We are just doing what we like to do. Will we be successful, probably not. Will that stop us from trying? Probably not.
I thought you said you weren't a commercial venture?