Responding to msg by perry@piermont.com ("Perry E. Metzger") on Wed, 01 Nov 11:51 AM
Why is this being sent to cypherpunks? Its totally irrelevant.
It's related to IBM's work on machine/code interface security, encryption and authentication capabilities. Cryptographers may want to examine how these work in Microkernal. If IBM will allow access to the features. And it's related to parallel alarms sounded on cypherpunks about the impossibility of any durable security which does not anticipate ever-changing attacks devised by authors of competing products and services. Finally, not your hat size, to be sure, it's related to the vanity of computer security consultants who dismiss unknown competition at the peril of their credibility. "The free market is a terror for tortured souls." Anonymous.