JonSolworth

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by JonSolworth 12y ago
You raise an interesting point. However, we believe that the difficulty of securing systems makes the world less private and less free, especially as we outsource everything to third parties. A strong software base would allow us to recla
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by JonSolworth 12y ago
Usability and simplicity are not separate concerns from security, they are requirements for a secure system.
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by JonSolworth 12y ago
The future will tell about Ethos' success. But I think the earlier adopters will be the tech savvy community that wants security & privacy and buys into Ethos' programming model.
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by JonSolworth 12y ago
This is the reason why we believe the Tao--the way--is essential to an OS. It is the programming paradigms and use, combined with OS semantics, which is the genius of UNIX.
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by JonSolworth 12y ago
Of course, we've been told that a clean-slate design is doomed to failure. But we believe that all traditional OSs have failed and are unfixable. If this is the case, there really is no alternative to clean slate.
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by JonSolworth 12y ago
Definitely, we are starting to open it up, encourage open source developers to get involve, and to encourage wide-spread use. If you are interested in getting involved, I'd like to hear from you. When we do release, we want the softwa
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by JonSolworth 12y ago
Borando is correct. MinimaLT (our TLS replacement) will use some sort of PKI, and eventually SayI. SayI is completely distributed, and enables the relying party (the entity doing the authentication) to choose which parts of the PKI to tru
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by JonSolworth 12y ago
Writing up the design principals of Ethos is one of my goals this summer. The short description is: (1) Strong security services (authentication, authorization, encryption, isolation) (2) Higher level, less error prone semantics for all OS