Death of antivirus software imminent

[Ivan Krstić]

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

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Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org

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