Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

Jay Sulzberger jays at panix.com
Tue Aug 13 10:43:10 PDT 2002


On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, AARG!Anonymous wrote:

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> 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.





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