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Caches are to trade off latency and bandwidth for cost. It's cheaper to put normal servers in regional colos to serve a lot of local customers, probably not ch
by benlivengood 6y ago
Caches are to trade off latency and bandwidth for cost. It's cheaper to put normal servers in regional colos to serve a lot of local customers, probably not cheaper to put expensive servers in orbit to serve a varying and small set of customers below a satellite.
I can see running HSMs in space; probably the most cost-effective physical security available.
- bob1029 6y agoHSM in space is a compelling idea. You don't need a big satellite either. You really just need to keep a few hundred bytes of key material and then process crypto operations against it from the ground.