TrustedBSD Extensions Project

[jont at us.ibm.com]

Someone purporting to be stanislav shalunov wrote:

> What if your disk controller goes bad and decides to write a block of
> TOP SECRET information onto CLASSIFIED hard drive once in every ten
> thousand requests?
>
> You would need to have a trusted disk controller that has extensive
> self-checks.  Do you know of such disk controllers in the market for
> PCs?  I don't.

I presumed Trusted Xenix was a PC OS, like Xenix was.

You can of course encrypt before writing to disk ...

- JonT

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Jon Tidswell
Advanced OS Technology Group / Sawmill Linux Project
IBM TJ Watson Research Center 30 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, N.Y. 10532

Email: jont at us.ibm.com   Voice: +1 914 784 7550


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