Someone has ported to the Palm platform a stripped-down Linux kernel - see:
http://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/uClinux/
Of course, the installation requires a Flash-based memory board, like those
sold by TRG:
http://www.trgnet.com/
Enzo
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Dan Geer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, April 09, 1999 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: IPSEC on a Palm III?
>Too bad the source code for PalmOS isn't available.... An OpenSource
>Secure PalmOS would be kind of cool. ;)
>
>-derek
>
>Dan Geer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>
>>
>> OTOH, a Palm isn't quite a 'secure' OS, either.. Sure, you can at
>> least see what you are signing, but there is no secure key storage
>> available. A trojan application could easily steal your credentials
>> off a PalmPilot. I don't know if this is the case for an iButton.
>>
>>
>>
>> Adoption rates for hand-helds hinge on multi-functionality
>> (something for everyone who'll buy) yet the power of the
>> hand-held hinges on secure OS (authorization with teeth,
>> as we here understand the concept).
>>
>>
>> | secure OS | multifunction
>> ----------+-----------+--------------
>> smartcard | yes | no
>> ----------+-----------+--------------
>> Palm | no | yes
>>
>>
>> So, which is easier to fix -- adding a security kernel to
>> the Palm or adding multi-function-ness to the smartcard?
>>
>> I'd say the security kernel for the Palm is by far easier
>> unless and until the physics of the smartcard flex requirement
>> are beaten somehow -- but why bother? Except as a container
>> object, I'd say that the niche smartcards occupy is going
>> away and going away fast. Wallet elimination versus wallet
>> thinning, as it were.
>>
>> --dan
>>
>
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> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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