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[Vrs-development] Cluster image security/privacy question
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Eric Altendorf |
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[Vrs-development] Cluster image security/privacy question |
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Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:40:28 -0700 |
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
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