example: secure computing kernel needed

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

At 12:02 PM 12/10/2003 -0500, John S. Denker wrote:
>Previous discussions of secure computing technology have
>been in some cases sidetracked and obscured by extraneous
>notions such as
>  -- Microsoft is involved, therefore it must be evil.
>  -- The purpose of secure computing is DRM, which is
>     intrinsically evil ... computers must be able to
>     copy anything anytime.

there have been other discussions about multics and the paper from a year 
ago about not having a lot of the current vulnerabilities ... some comment 
that security has to be designed in from the start. misc. past refs to 
multics study
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#47 Multics_Security
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#42 Thirty Years Later: Lessons from 
the Multics Security Evaluation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#44 Thirty Years Later: Lessons from 
the Multics Security Evaluation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#45 Thirty Years Later: Lessons from 
the Multics Security Evaluation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#8 Backdoor in AES ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#10 Backdoor in AES ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#58 The next big things that weren't
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#78 Newsgroup cliques?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#6 unix permissions
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#0 Disk drives as commodities. Was 
Re: Yamhill
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#59 grey-haired assembler programmers 
(Ritchie's C)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#4 A Dark Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#3 Ping:  Anne & Lynn Wheeler
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#48 Who said DAT?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#19 Secure OS Thoughts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#1 Password / access rights check
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#5 perfomance vs. key size


there is also a number of discussions about the gnosis, keykos, eros 
lineage ... random refs to gnosis, keykos, &/or eros
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#69 TSS ancient history, was X86 
ultimate CISC? designs)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#22 No more innovation?  Get serious
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#73 7090 vs. 7094 etc.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#33 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital 
Equipment in the 70s?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#35 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital 
Equipment in the 70s?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#10 TSS/360
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#59 Blade architectures
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#0 Blade architectures
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#4 markup vs wysiwyg (was: Re: 
learning how to use a computer)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#43 IBM doing anything for 50th Anniv?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#63 Hercules and System/390 - do we 
need it?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#75 30th b'day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#18 Multiple layers of virtual 
address translation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#41 Segments, capabilities, buffer 
overrun attacks
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#15 two pi, four phase, 370 clone
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#20 A Dark Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#50 Slashdot: O'Reilly On The 
Importance Of The Mainframe Heritage
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#19 Secure OS Thoughts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#22 Secure OS Thoughts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#26 Secure OS Thoughts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#24 Intel iAPX 432
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#54 Thoughts on Utility Computing?


there is some number of efforts being done taking advantage of itanium-2 
hardware features (at least one such project in m'soft).
--
Anne & Lynn Wheeler    http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/
Internet trivia 20th anv http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
  

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