Consider plug-ins
Posted Jan 27, 2005 7:57 UTC (Thu) by
eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to:
Securely renting out your CPU with Linux by xorbe
Parent article:
Securely renting out your CPU with Linux
To me the patch sounds like something that could have lots of other
uses besides renting CPU:s. For example, it might enable a secure
"ActiveX-like" native code plug-in system for browsers (or other extendable
apps). The plug-in would communicate only through file descriptors open
at the time it is called, and would be completely unable to mess with
anything else (unlike a Windows ActiveX control).
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