idea: a managed linux distribution, for weak users

[Brendan G]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Justin Dugger <jldugger at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:46 PM,  <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've long thought it would be neat for broadband ISPs to provide a
> > netbooted connectivity/hardware testing OS.  It won't corrupt itself
> > since you won't be able to change the master image on the server, and
> > it could easily be used for web browsing.  Then again, would you trust
> > your ISP to execute code on your machines?  I wouldn't.
>
> You could run code on _their_ machines.  There are people who have
> recently proven methods of running encrypted computing, to where the
> math all works but the host can't decrypt what is being calculated.
> They of course will know the algorithm, even if they don't know the
> data.
>
> Justin Dugger


Do you have any links for this encrypted computing research?  That sounds
fascinating.
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