On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Derek Brans wrote:

> 1. Have there been any previous efforts to accomplish this?
> 2. I need some design ideas.

I toyed around with the idea of creating encrypted objects that required a
certain user to unlock it, accessing the data.  I never actually
implemented the real encryption, but had a framework in place for
serializing and instantiating the objects for encryption.  It was really
simple, and slow, but I think the concept is still of worth. I didn't do
anything on the VM level, but did in Object. I don't have the code
anymore, but it wouldn't be all that useful- it was sort of a lazy Sunday
proof of concept, long lost in image version upgrades.

Regards,
Aaron

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