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Re: Death of antivirus software imminent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?UTF-8?Q?Ivan_Krsti=C4=87?=)
Mon Jan 7 10:02:49 2008
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: =?UTF-8?Q?Ivan_Krsti=C4=87?= <krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>
To: Alexander Klimov <alserkli@inbox.ru>
In-Reply-To: <TheMailAgent.9bede7b11058f96@1cdc355271dc2818c8790>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:16:47 -0500
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 =20
concretely saying "here's an OS not designed from scratch, but with =20
certain pieces modified, that's likely to be extremely resistant to =20
viruses, malware and other pests", in regard to the OS being designed =20=
for the OLPC. We're still implementing large chunks of the security =20
system, but my spec[0] has been public for a year, our security =20
working group contains a number of people from this list, and no one =20
so far has claimed that this design won't successfully resist most -- =20=
though not all -- classes of attacks we've seen or can presently =20
imagine seeing in the desktop security realm.
[0] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Bitfrost
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Ivan Krsti=C4=87 <krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org
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