Re: [9fans] Re: some #s

[David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>]

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We don't zero pages till we're going to give them to another process.
If you want to feel safe after doing something really secret, I'ld recommend
power cycling at the least.  Choate is completely right here.

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From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: some #s
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 18:06:04 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0306051802450.9676-100000@einstein.ssz.com>


On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Dan Cross wrote:

> Which, as I stated, is irrelevant since we're talking about Plan 9.

Which has yet to go through a professional level vetting. About the best
that can be said for it was what was published in "Maximum Security".

> Which programmers are those?  The OS programmers, or the application
> programmers?  My whole point was that what the application programmers
> did was irrelevant.

Really? Talk to some crypto programmers some time. I think they'd disagree
with you a great deal on that one. The reality is that memory leakage via
apps -is- a major concern for real world security issues. OS'es don't have
the best record in that regard either.

I'd suggest arXiv or SiteSeer as a start. You can also take a look at the
NSA version of Linux.


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