Submission + - RMS & Clipperz offer freedom in the cloud (infoworld.com)
SavioRodrigues writes: "I previously wrote about Clipperz because I really think Marco and the team at Clipperz have a great idea. To summarize, Clipperz has technology for "zero-knowledge web applications" which they have applied to an online password manager as a proof of concept. Marco writes:
The guys at Clipperz and RMS have been talking about how Clipperz's technology could provide freedom and privacy in the cloud. To that end, they suggest (summarized from here):
It seems that Richard Stallman agrees that Clipperz technology could be very useful in the cloud-based computing world that awaits us."We simply meant that Clipperz knows nothing about its users and their data!... As a consequence of the "learn nothing" mantra, every zero-knowledge application should be completely anonymous, or at least it should make it impossible to relate the real name or email of a user to his data"
The guys at Clipperz and RMS have been talking about how Clipperz's technology could provide freedom and privacy in the cloud. To that end, they suggest (summarized from here):
- Choose AGPL: If your services are based on software with an AGPL license, you have to make the source code available to anyone that uses the service
- Add zero-knowledge sauce: The server hosting the web app could know nothing of its users, not even their usernames
- Build a smarter brower: We still need to provide users of web apps with an even more flexible and secure environment.