Proposal for the new Fedora Project

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 07:30:08 -0400,
  Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 2) We need to design an ENTIRELY NEW WAY for servers to access data for
> presentation. Currently, all webservers require full access to the
> unencrypted data at their site in order to present it to the user in a
> meaningful way (in the form of fully-rendered pages). This needs to
> change. We need to extend the HTML5 standard (or skip ahead and start
> writing an HTML6 standard) wherein browsers are built to understand that
> portions of a website are sent in pure HTML, CSS and JS, and other
> portions are transmitted back in cyphertext that only a user with the
> appropriate private key can make use of.

I don't think this is the right approach. I think we should be developing
social applications where federation is built in, so that anyone can
run their own nodes and be an equal participant in the services provided.

This allows there to be competition where companies can compete on privacy
promises (as well as other aspects) and people who want can run their own
personal nodes.

Doing computations on encrypted data is hard and there aren't likely to
be good ways to do general computation without leaking information any
time soon.