Re: Challenge: Find potential use cases for non-trivial confinement

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 05:29 +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> Scribit Marcus Brinkmann dies 30/04/2006 hora 23:17:
> > Propose a use case for non-trivial confinement.
> 
> Here is an existing use case:
> 
> A friend of mine is developing a physical constraint software, that will
> be able to calculate how an homogeneous matter would crack under a given
> set of forces.
> 
> The program would be used by people from aircraft and weaponry industry
> who will apply it to matters that are industrial secrets.
> 
> As a very short part of the algorithm is to be kept secret by the
> company who created it, the company would like that the program could be
> executed without being disclosed, while giving guarantee to the user
> that the processed data would not leak from their session.

Ironically, this is the very use case for which the KeyKOS factory
(a.k.a. the EROS constructor) was originally invented -- though the
original example did not involve any military complications.

shap