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Re: [Vrs-development] Cluster image security/privacy question
From: |
Bill Lance |
Subject: |
Re: [Vrs-development] Cluster image security/privacy question |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Apr 2002 06:08:10 -0700 (PDT) |
This is a very good question.
BTW, it's not possible to be too paranoid when dealing
with security and privacy.
Chris's recent discussion of graphing connected nodes
might address this.
--- Eric Altendorf <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I was just reading the cluster image document at
> http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/VRS/lds-detail.html
>
> The following may be totally paranoid, but I bring
> it up since one of the
> stated goals of the VRS is to be able to safely
> share information which has
> been deemed inappropriate by a hostile social,
> religious, or governmental
> environment.
>
> I'm wondering if in such an environment, it would be
> wise to *not* let each
> node hold the same cluster image, with information
> about all other nodes.
> Perhaps it would be best for each node to *only*
> explicitly know about a few
> other nodes, thus forming cluster subsets whose
> union is the entire cluster.
> The idea, of course, is that should one node be
> attacked in one form or
> another, and the cluster image be discovered, only
> the identity of a few
> nodes in the cluster would be revealed, as opposed
> to the identity of all
> participants.
>
> I'm not sure if this is really an issue or not, and
> it is certainly a
> complication we may not want to address at this
> point. I thought I'd bring
> it up, though.
>
> Eric
>
> --
> "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you.
> Then they fight you. And then you win."
> -Gandhi
>
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