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If VMs are running on hardware Gridspot doesn't control, and if the filesystem isn't encrypted, how is my data secured? At $0.002 per hour I'm actually OK with

• repsilat 14y ago
  This is explicitly part of their pitch to users. From TFA: > Gridspot is perfect for jobs that: > • ... > • Aren't privacy sensitive
• deno 14y ago
  If the data is not confidential, but you’re worried about someone messing with your computations, it still might be worthwhile to use defensive strategy and just run the same task multiple times on separate instances and compare results before accepting output. Since the task can be scheduled in parallel, there’s no significant overhead and it’s still way cheaper than Amazon/Google. It’s not exactly replacement for EC2, but there’s a lot of applications that would fit Gridspot just fine. But I guess one has to be much more aware of all the security issues when writing for a platform like this. The Gridspot folks should perhaps consider creating solid list of best-practice guidelines. Now can someone also create Gridspot for storage? :)
• alexkcd 14y ago
  Same here. It would be great to get end-to-end encryption, but I don't think that this is currently practical. Some recent research [1] has shown that it's theoretically possible to delegate the ability to process your data, without giving away access to it. But from what I remember, in practice the computation becomes orders of magnitude slower than on the unencrypted counterpart. [1] http://crypto.stanford.edu/craig/easy-fhe.pdf http://crypto.stanford.edu/craig/easy-fhe.pdf