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…
Usability and simplicity are not separate concerns from security, they are requirements for a secure system.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Usability and simplicity are not separate concerns from security, they are requirements for a secure system.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…