Re: secure computing for 2.6.7

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:10:52PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> > However as said boinc and seti would better start using it too.
> 
> Thinking about it some more, I'm not convinced they can.
> 
> After all, they need to get new data to perform calculations
> on, and pass the results of previous calculations on to the
> server.
> 
> In order to do that, the user needs to run code that's not
> restricted by seccomp. [..]

Getting new data to performance calculations and pass the results up to
the buyer is what I'm doing too and it's the ideal workload to use
with seccomp or trusted computing. But this is very offtopic discussion
for this list.

jpeg sure can be decompressed too.
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