On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 05:29 +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit Marcus Brinkmann dies 30/04/2006 hora 23:17: > > Propose a use case for non-trivial confinement. > > Here is an existing use case: > > A friend of mine is developing a physical constraint software, that will > be able to calculate how an homogeneous matter would crack under a given > set of forces. > > The program would be used by people from aircraft and weaponry industry > who will apply it to matters that are industrial secrets. > > As a very short part of the algorithm is to be kept secret by the > company who created it, the company would like that the program could be > executed without being disclosed, while giving guarantee to the user > that the processed data would not leak from their session.
Ironically, this is the very use case for which the KeyKOS factory (a.k.a. the EROS constructor) was originally invented -- though the original example did not involve any military complications. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
