[9fans] And what about secure computing?

[Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>]

One of the problems we've been looking at on H18 is how to handle security
issues with regard to users programs and where they run.

The current idea is that each process has a 'security' tag that sets some
level of sensitivity with regard to public exposure. And then a 'trust'
parameter for each machine or cluster of machines.

So a site might have processes running at verious levels of 'security' and
then assign them to clusters based on 'trust'. So internal accounting
programs would run only on machines that had the highest trust level,
whereas a webpage might be accessible to all and thus processes related to
it might run in a public cluster of processors.


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