On Friday 20 September 2002 23.25, Herman L. Knief wrote:
It's the difference of so many providers who already use "standard extending technologies" (as M$ likes to put it) that make some web sites only fully functional to IE clients. Now, if they add another layer that say's there has to be a trust relationship before they will server you data... then you are completely screwed if you are not running M$. It goes way beyond some sites using QuickTime or some other format. At least now, some sites are partially non-functional... if this make any progress, sites will become totally non-functional to any non-conforming free thinker.
Well, I could very well be wrong about this. I haven't studied palladium nearly enough to make intelligent statements about it. But the way I read the white paper I got the impression that it was essentially a hardware implementation of ssh/ssl and encrypted file systems. In the scenario you describe therefore, it would be far more likely that what would happen is a sort of tunnel, similar to ssl, would be established between client and server. And that the data would be encrypted using that machines hardware encoded key, similar to what we have today with software keys. I can't see that that would put any new requirements on the client software, beyond having access to a driver/API for the encryption functions in the hardware. //Anders