From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mjktv-0001WD-H0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:21:15 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mjktr-0001UW-D7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:21:15 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33182 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mjktr-0001UD-5f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:21:11 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:45298) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mjktq-0000r8-N6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:21:11 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 03:21:08 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU as a "virtual smart card"? Message-ID: <20090905022108.GC24516@shareable.org> References: <20090831180825.6ed2ea55@bud-laptop> <20090901234716.GB1321@shareable.org> <20090903170931.1e7d5772@bud-laptop> <20090904131228.GH23700@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20090904154039.09fd1cad@bud-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090904154039.09fd1cad@bud-laptop> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Bud P. Bruegger" Cc: Blue Swirl , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Forrester , John@csclub.uwaterloo.ca, Lennart Sorensen Bud P. Bruegger wrote: > any ideas whether such a thing is even possible? There has been a theoretical breakthrough recently in encrypted computation, where calculations are performed without even temporarily decrypting the values, but that breakthrough would be extremely slow (millions of times slower than a real machine) and is currently far from practical. -- Jamie