From my perspective, the key is to align our standards with Zero Trust
Architecture. Confidential Storage is a good name in that sense. ZTA will
need clarity on other components including authorization and audit.
Adrian
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 1:31 PM Mike Prorock <mprorock@mesur.io> wrote:
> If we change the semantics often enough it will continue to scare people
> away and create a nice walled garden. /s
>
> But seriously, this kind of thing, though nominally trivial, is a barrier
> to entry, especially for enterprise folks who need this functionality and
> also serves to decrease confidence in the community.
>
> I say this as a consumer of EDV (or whatever we are calling it now)
> approaches with well defined use cases, rather than a creator of code in
> this space, so take these comments as coming from a bit of an outsider
> looking in.
>
> Michael Prorock
> CTO, Founder
> mesur.io
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020, 14:17 Dmitri Zagidulin <dzagidulin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's right, yeah!! :)
>>
>> (One of the benefits of the new name is, "Confidential Storage" goes well
>> to complement the well-known term "Confidential Computing".)
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 12:51 PM John, Anil <anil.john@hq.dhs.gov> wrote:
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>>> Just so I can trace the evolution of the naming here …
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>>> Trusted Trade Server >> Encrypted Data Vault >> Secure Data Storage >>
>>> to …. “Confidential Storage”? :-)
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