On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, AARG!Anonymous wrote: < ... />
However the larger vision of trusted computing leverages the global internet and turns it into what is potentially a giant distributed computer. For this to work, for total strangers on the net to have trust in the integrity of applications on each others' machines, will require some kind of centralized trust infrastructure. It may possibly be multi-rooted but you will probably not be able to get away from this requirement.
No. Safe distributed computing can be attained without any such centralized control system. Just as thermodynamic behavior needs no centralized system of control of atomic behavior, but rather proceeds by way of statistical mechanics, so safe mass computations may be accomplished by application of one engineering branch of statistical mechanics, called information theory. The main publications are from the Fifties and Sixties. oo--JS.