On Jan 5, 2008, at 3:47 AM, Alexander Klimov wrote:
It sounds like: we cannot make secure OS because it is too large -- let us don't bother to make a smaller secure OS, just add some more software and hardware to an existent system and then it will be secure. Sounds like a fairytale
I don't think this is really being said. In fact, I've been pretty concretely saying "here's an OS not designed from scratch, but with certain pieces modified, that's likely to be extremely resistant to viruses, malware and other pests", in regard to the OS being designed for the OLPC. We're still implementing large chunks of the security system, but my spec[0] has been public for a year, our security working group contains a number of people from this list, and no one so far has claimed that this design won't successfully resist most -- though not all -- classes of attacks we've seen or can presently imagine seeing in the desktop security realm.
[0] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Bitfrost -- Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://radian.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
