Looking at NaCl
May. 18th, 2010 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izardI am playing more with latest developments of NaCl. The obvious idea comes to the mind:
It's not just a perfect way of running untrusted code in browser. Server side (cloud) use could also be interesting.
Not limited to the personal cloud idea I am evaluating, this could be a viable basis for EC2 style app hosting. There were several SETI@home like idle cycles based distributed computing systems but all of those had problems with trust. Nobody is willing to run arbitrary code on even idle PC. To overcome this issue one could either make applications' developers live insanely difficult using certifications/managed sandboxes etc or... use NaCl :)
It's not just a perfect way of running untrusted code in browser. Server side (cloud) use could also be interesting.
Not limited to the personal cloud idea I am evaluating, this could be a viable basis for EC2 style app hosting. There were several SETI@home like idle cycles based distributed computing systems but all of those had problems with trust. Nobody is willing to run arbitrary code on even idle PC. To overcome this issue one could either make applications' developers live insanely difficult using certifications/managed sandboxes etc or... use NaCl :)
