Wednesday, August 19, 2020

A block chain of processors

The smart card system is block chain among the processors.  But ad hoc, not necessarily distributed.

Each card has a secret key to verify any other card. If the cards are verifiable so is all provable code inside the card.   Card verification is as simple as sending a secure message once. Either card has the private key needed to decode, the the common verification codes should appear.

The the kernel comes with a hierarchy of keys,  all secret, some global, some local, some public, most generated by the user via exchange contract.. A verification protocols are  some mix of these keys.  

There is no guarantee the hole set of cards are chained together in a particular fashion. There is a guarantee the card sends a heart beat t the fab in the finite future.  A better description might be distributed spreadsheets.

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