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Re: Thanks, Lucky, for helping to kill gnutella
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Smith)
Sun Aug 11 13:19:06 2002
To: cypherpunks@lne.com, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:05:15 PDT."
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From: Sean Smith <sws@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Reply-To: Sean Smith <sws@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:35:12 -0400
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@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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