There is a better way than the traditional 'client/server' approach (distributed or not). It addresses each and every one of these issues and its already written (by the people who invented Unix no less). And it's Open Source (under it's own license). Even has crypto built in.
Plan 9. http://plan9.bell-labs.com And the only user/co-op group (not for long hopefully), http://open-forge.org On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Jeroen C.van Gelderen wrote: > > On Friday, Aug 9, 2002, at 13:05 US/Eastern, AARG!Anonymous wrote: > > If only... Luckily the cypherpunks are doing all they can to make sure > > that no such technology ever exists. They will protect us from being > > able > > to extend trust across the network. They will make sure that any open > > network like Gnutella must forever face the challenge of rogue clients. > > They will make sure that open source systems are especially vulnerable > > to rogues, helping to drive these projects into closed source form. > > This argument is a straw man but to be fair: I am looking forward to > your detailed proof that the only way to protect a Gnutella-like > network from rogue clients is a Palladium-like system. You are so > adamant that I have to assume you have such proof sitting right on your > desk. Please share it with us. > > -J > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Cryptography Mailing List > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ____________________________________________________________________ Conform and be dull......J. Frank Dobie [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------
