Mats Bergstrom <matsb@sos.sll.se> writes:
On Wed, 26 Jan 1994, Jim Miller wrote:
If true, I guess the next question becomes: How can you offer a service to the Internet, but make it impossible for a Bad Guy to physically locate you?
[In] a speech by Donn Parker, presumably The Great Bald Eagle Of Computer Crime, at a secutity conference. [Parker mentions] Phantom Nodes on the Internet as a possible future 'problem'. I guess this might be related.
This has been an idea of sorts that I have been tossing around to Doug down here over bagels and coffee; how to decouple the server from any single physical host or subset of hosts in a cooperating pool. There is some interesting work in secure multi-party computation protocols that might be coupled with a distributed MUD-like server to create a system that can act as an information server or broker without needing a specific physical location. It would take some hacking to get things to work together, but it might be possible to create a network of servers that listen for RPCish requests from various other members of the network and together they might provide enough ambiguity regarding where the actual server resides. It would take some work, but it should be possible... jim