Amazon Quantum Ledger Database

Post by CiPHPerCoder » Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 6:04 PM UTC

xkjkls wrote: post #20

reikonomusha wrote: post #17

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In the context of computing technology, “quantum” is not the appropriate term, and I only agree it makes sense with the most generous interpretation of the term, whose meaning you describe finds itself mostly in certain physical theories. They could have used the word “discrete”, which is overwhelmingly more contextually accurate, if that’s what they mean.

Eh, it's a branding thing. I doubt many customers are confused.

Post by DanielBMarkham » Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

ajkjk wrote: post #28

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #22

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Is there a need for high throughput in some domain?

Yes? Name any domain and there's somebody who wants high-throughput auditable transactions in it.

Post by cloudhead » Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 6:06 PM UTC

cheeze wrote: post #26

cloudhead wrote: post #16

As they pointed out, this requires me to trust Amazon. But since that's the case, what's the point of it being auditable? Amazon can easily drop the last N transactions on your ledger and tell you the digest you provided was "not found".

Amazon could leak your secrets stored in Secrets Manager, or KMS. ACM could leak your private keys. EC2 hypervisor could have a 0day that allows China to steal all your data. CloudTrail could drop audit logs. At some point, you have to trust the company who's software you're using. Sure Amazon could easily drop the last N transactions, but what motivation do they have to do so? What behavior in the past makes you thi…

Post by CiPHPerCoder » Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 6:07 PM UTC

cloudhead wrote: post #35

cheeze wrote: post #26

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Amazon could leak your secrets stored in Secrets Manager, or KMS. ACM could leak your private keys. EC2 hypervisor could have a 0day that allows China to steal all your data. CloudTrail could drop audit logs. At some point, you have to trust the company who's software you're using. Sure Amazon could easily drop the last N transactions, but what motivation do they have to do so? What behavior in the past makes you thi…

Completely agree - what I'm wondering is why they are telling their customers that they can verify the data for themselves, when that is entirely pointless: "and using cryptography, you can easily verify that there have been no unintended modifications to your application’s data"

Post by NathanKP » Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 6:07 PM UTC

ajkjk wrote: post #32

I'm pretty sure this is what most people actually want when they say they want a blockchain, they just don't know it yet. It's got all the useful database features with none of the "well uh let's distribute it over people's computers and let people mine coins to support it" complexity, which adds nothing to 99% of usecases besides silly ICO potential.