[11458] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Thanks, Lucky, for helping to kill gnutella
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Sun Aug 11 19:49:58 2002
In-Reply-To: <200208111635.g7BGZCk01872@chipotle.cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 13:30:46 -0400
To: Sean Smith <sws@cs.dartmouth.edu>, cypherpunks@lne.com,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... 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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