On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 18:49, Bas Wijnen wrote: [...] > No, it's nonsense. The program storing the encryption keys doesn't know if > the storage is opaque. It doesn't care either. It's the user who cares. And > it's the user who chooses to use opaque storage (or not). The user can trust > that the program runs on opaque storage, not because the programmer guarantees > this (by putting a check in the program), but simply by providing opaque > storage to the program. (Intentional side-effect is that storage which is > given to some other user cannot be checked for opaqueness. This can be > "fixed", but I'd rather not do that if possible.) [...]
Which Object(s) in the system represent the user and her choices? -Eric _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
