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. --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. -- Sean W. Smith, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/ (has ssl link to pgp key) Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH USA
