[4482] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Pebble (was Re: IPSEC on a Palm III?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Thu Apr 8 13:45:37 1999
In-Reply-To: <14092.2760.31842.926306@pinotnoir.media.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:23:45 -0400
To: nelson@media.mit.edu (Nelson Minar), Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: "cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>
At 9:47 PM -0400 on 4/7/99, Nelson Minar wrote:
> I'm not trying to be difficult; this is a real problem. And no one has
> a good solution for consumer use. I think a Pilot is likely to be
> better than my desktop PC.
This is kind of what I'm getting at, a Palm has a better chance of being a
trusted device, or at least the form factor is, than a Mac, or even a
Windows PC ;-).
BTW, at the USENIX workshop on Embedded Systems last week, there was a guy
from Lucent talking about an operating system they're mucking around with
called Pebble (the paper was by John Bruno, Jose Brustoloni, Eran Gabbler,
Avi Silberschatz, and Christopher Small; Gabbler presented), which ran
untrusted applications in their own segregated bit of machine, all the way
down to the processor.
Not unlike Inferno, I've heard, but better...
Cheers,
RAH
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