<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Justin Dugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jldugger@gmail.com">jldugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:46 PM, <<a href="mailto:billycrook@gmail.com">billycrook@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I've long thought it would be neat for broadband ISPs to provide a<br>> netbooted connectivity/hardware testing OS. It won't corrupt itself<br>> since you won't be able to change the master image on the server, and<br>
> it could easily be used for web browsing. Then again, would you trust<br>> your ISP to execute code on your machines? I wouldn't.<br><br>You could run code on _their_ machines. There are people who have<br>
recently proven methods of running encrypted computing, to where the<br>math all works but the host can't decrypt what is being calculated.<br>They of course will know the algorithm, even if they don't know the<br>
data.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Justin Dugger</font></blockquote>
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<div>Do you have any links for this encrypted computing research? That sounds fascinating.</div></div></div>