I'd like the Palladium/TCPA critics to offer an alternative proposal for achieving the following technical goal: Allow computers separated on the internet to cooperate and share data and computations such that no one can get access to the data outside the limitations and rules imposed by the applications. [...] You could even have each participant compile the program himself, but still each app can recognize the others on the network and cooperate with them.
Unless the application author can predict the exact output of the compilers, he can't issue a signature on the object code. The compilers then have to be inside the trusted base, checking a signature on the source code and reflecting it somehow through a signature they create for the object code. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com