For people who don't read LKML (or get interesting bits forwarded to them), there's a wonderful quote by Linus Torvalds about the difference between OS scheduler design and security design:
"Schedulers can be objectively tested. There's this thing called 'performance', that can generally be quantified on a load basis. "Yes, you can have crazy ideas in both schedulers and security. Yes, you can simplify both for a particular load. Yes, you can make mistakes in both. But the *discussion* on security seems to never get down to real numbers. So the difference between them is simple: one is 'hard science'. The other one is 'people wanking around with their opinions'." http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/10/1/326534 Peter :-). --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
