Pretty much the same advice applies to both; the cryptography & infosec industries are riven with people who did [something cool] once and who want to milk it forever, and … exceptions exist, but generally you will advance further because of what you do rather than for what you have done.

Don’t sit on your laurels. What have you achieved in the past 3 to 5 years?

Hi!

I have one patent and I also worked on the team which invented “message franking” — and I invented the name “message franking” which I can prove because I was the only member of the team who was ever a philatelist / stamp collector. 🙂

The short version is: if you want your software to be used then don’t patent it and don’t sell it. Instead you are likely to be better off if you publish / give it away and explain why it is more useful than any alternative or pre-existing solution to the problem.

Make your money by being a competent cryptographer, consultant, advisor, and academic, rather than by owning the rights to some magic thing. This latter approach used to work in the 1970s but doesn’t work any longer.

If you have invented something weird that is different and useful then you should publish it to academia. Inventing something weird and then attempting to monetize it directly is a reliable indicator of “snake oil” which should be avoided by all people.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptography/s/JiO2KHr2pi