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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

The JiGL Operating Environment (Jingle for short) offers all of this and
more.  I believe it uses recursive random encryption and compression.
Thomas Beckett or David Minton can verify this feature, I think they've
used it a bit in the early trials.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:internetworkers-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Tanner Lovelace
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 1:01 AM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] CryptOS
> 
> Alan MacHett wrote:
> 
> > The closest I've come to finding what I have in mind is the project
of
> > this fellow in Dublin.  He calls it CryptOS, but what he means is
> > CryptNetwork:
> > http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Christian.Jensen/research/CryptOS/
> > And there are also various (smart) card cryptographic operating
systems
> > and various cryptographic USB dongles.
> >
> > There's also this excellent article about making a secure OS:
> > http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20031125S0045
> >
> > ...but I'm not just thinking about a secure operating system or even
an
> > operating system that integrates strong cryptography --
> > http://www.openbsd.org/crypto.html -- I want a cryptographic
operating
> > system.  Ideally, even the hardware for the system would be built
with
> > crypto in mind.  Then the OS itself would run encrypted.  Only
> authorized
> > users could have access to the desktop.  And if you forget your
password
> > ... oh well; none of this administrator level reverse-engineering
hashes
> > or whatnot to regain access -- you lose, start over.  Undeniably
secure:
> > no way to hack it, crack it, reverse-engineer it, electron
spectroscope
> > it, or anything else that anyone might dream up...
> >
> > It's extreme and not economical, I know, much like my dream of
seeing
> Mech
> > Warriors duke it out on battlefields.  Still, I suspect a CryptOS
would
> > have more use and popularity...
> 
> Well, I don't think you'll have any luck right now with the hardware,
> but as far as the software goes, have you looked into SELinux?  It
> was created by the NSA to be a secure version of linux.  Linux
> Journal just ran an article recently about someone who put an
> installation of it on the net, gave out the root password, and
> people still failed to be able to crack it.  It secures everything,
> even from root.  Google should know where it is. :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
> 
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