Re: "general purpose OS is fundamentally inadequate for trusted operations"

2017-04-22 Thread Robert J. Hansen
[lots of good stuff I completely agree with snipped] > not people like Robert J Hansen I only use my full name and middle initial to prevent confusion with Robert "rsnake" Hansen. He and I both spoke at Black Hat a few years ago, we're both in the computer security field, and so on. "Robert J.

Re: "general purpose OS is fundamentally inadequate for trusted operations"

2017-04-22 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Smart card is not the device authors discuss in that paper, but it is > a small, evolutionary step toward it. Not really. What's the trusted device in the system? It's still the desktop PC. A compromise there leads to so many different and catastrophic attacks that it needs to be called a

Re: "general purpose OS is fundamentally inadequate for trusted operations"

2017-04-22 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 22/04/17 09:34, listo factor via Gnupg-users wrote: > Consequently, the promotion of it's > use is frowned upon primarily by those that are more interested > in spreading the use of gpg for philosophical and political > reasons among those that don't have any real adversaries, I completely

"general purpose OS is fundamentally inadequate for trusted operations"

2017-04-22 Thread listo factor via Gnupg-users
On 04/10/2017 03:25 AM, Robert J. Hansen - r...@sixdemonbag.org wrote: Preserve the security of your endpoint system. Nothing else will do. The year is 2017 and this is simply no longer a practical strategy: "...Our position is that the general purpose operating system is fundamentally