[42446] in Cypherpunks
Electric Communities (was: COS_sec)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas Barnes)
Fri Oct 27 15:59:36 1995
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 12:54:20 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: cman@communities.com (Douglas Barnes)
FWIW, this is the company I work for. Not a bad article; more
info is available at: http://www.communities.com/. Three of
the nine people who work here are long-time subscribers to this
list... I was recruited at a c'punks Bay Area meeting.
--doug "member of the cryptographic staff" barnes
> Electric Communities began work began in 1993 on the
> Cyberspace Operating System, or COS, designed to manage
> the resources of shared computing -- like security and
> bandwidth -- just as operating systems like the
> Macintosh OS or Windows 95 manage resources inside a
> desktop PC. The team is inventing some technology,
> including a programming language (compatible with Sun
> Microsystems' new Java language for Internet
> applications) and a design concept for software building
> blocks which it is in the process of patenting. In
> addition, staff cryptographers are weaving encryption
> throughout the system to make it absolutely secure and
> private.
>
>
> COS_sec (6 kb)
