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Not secure if it is not verifiable easily

Threat-hardened is NOT secure, per se.

To be really secure there must be:

- a means of easily verifying that the machine instructions are ONLY defined by the source code. Too complex a kernel can make this unlikey.

- a real-time means of prevently unwanted changes to the machine code at run time. The problem is who makes those decisions, in what areas and at what level.

When flash RAM, or whatever replaces it, makes large amounts of non-volatile RAM directly connected to the CPUs, programs will be permanently 'running' when they are installed. This will require a whole new way of constructing applications, if not a whole new infrastructure with which to really take advantage of such facilites. Then is the opportunity that OSs can be made SECURE.

Posted by: Patanjali   Posted on: 12/15/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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