Thanks, Lucky, for helping to kill gnutella

[R. A. Hettinga]

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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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah at ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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