A centralized storage "solution" for sensitive information cannot work. Compare it to a bank: while in general we can trust banks, it still happens that bank employees take the money and run.
A
personal agent can store your profile data, and have an active
implementation of your policy, possibly performing interaction with the
owner.
The advantages are clear:
everybody can create their own agents to represent them, putting the responsability where it belongs,
no update problems,
no single party that
everyone must trust.
No centralized storage of sensitive
information.
Depending on the type of application the
agent can move to the host or do its work remotely using messaging.
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My employer Tryllian sells a platform that from the start was designed to deal with these issues.
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An agent can very well use remote messaging to communicate. That way, you have the advantage of an agent managing your profile and exercising your policy, without the risks of travelling to a unknown host. Of course, host authentication can solve this problem, allowing save travelling.
My employer Tryllian makes an agent platform that solves a lot of these issues.
Of course, this is the way to stimulate technology and cut the budget. Forbid people to export strong crypto, thus creating a thriving foreign market. Then spend a lot of money to build it yourself, instead of importing free code with rock solid reputation from Canada.
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A personal agent can store your profile data, and have an active implementation of your policy, possibly performing interaction with the owner.
The advantages are clear:
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My employer Tryllian sells a platform that from the start was designed to deal with these issues.
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An agent can very well use remote messaging to communicate. That way, you have the advantage of an agent managing your profile and exercising your policy, without the risks of travelling to a unknown host. Of course, host authentication can solve this problem, allowing save travelling.
My employer Tryllian makes an agent platform that solves a lot of these issues.
Of course, this is the way to stimulate technology and cut the budget. Forbid people to export strong crypto, thus creating a thriving foreign market. Then spend a lot of money to build it yourself, instead of importing free code with rock solid reputation from Canada.