Thanks, Lucky, for helping to kill gnutella

Sean Smith sws at cs.dartmouth.edu
Sun Aug 11 09:35:12 PDT 2002


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.

--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.










-- 
Sean W. Smith, Ph.D.                         sws at cs.dartmouth.edu   
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/       (has ssl link to pgp key)
Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH USA




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