I'm genuinely sorry, but I couldn't resist this... At 12:35 PM -0400 on 8/11/02, Sean Smith wrote:
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.
...and not the world's deepest hole, sitting right next door? ;-) Cheers, RAH
--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.
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