I'm genuinely sorry, but I couldn't resist this... At 12:35 PM -0400 on 8/11/02, Sean Smith wrote:
> Actually, our group at Dartmouth has an NSF "Trusted Computing" > grant to do this, using the IBM 4758 (probably with a different > OS) as the hardware. > > We've been calling the project "Marianas", since it involves a > chain of islands. ...and not the world's deepest hole, sitting right next door? ;-) Cheers, RAH > --Sean > >>If only there were a technology in which clients could verify and >>yes, even trust, each other remotely. Some way in which a digital >>certificate on a program could actually be verified, perhaps by >>some kind of remote, trusted hardware device. This way you could >>know that a remote system was actually running a well-behaved >>client before admitting it to the net. This would protect Gnutella >>from not only the kind of opportunistic misbehavior seen today, but >>the future floods, attacks and DOSing which will be launched in >>earnest once the content companies get serious about taking this >>network down. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
