Dnia wtorek, 3 czerwca 2014 18:32:52 piszesz:
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 03:06:43AM +0200, tpb-crypto@laposte.net wrote:
Your proposal would cause 99% of software currently in use to be rejected
That seems like a feature...
(note that I don't think most software should be audited as security critical. We can reduce the Trusted Computing Base and audit only those bits.)
and make the development costs increase as astronomically as to be compared to medical research.
I like to compare our current situation to the Steam Age. There was an enormous amount of innovation in steam power, heating, etc in the 1800s. There was a concomitant lack of standardized safety measures, and occasionally boilers exploded taking entire apartment buildings with them.
Over time the rate of innovation decreased, standardization set in, safety measures were instituted, and now we have boring steam radiators in apartment buildings rather than exciting steam-powered Difference Engines in our pockets.
I love that analoy. I was usually using "one of the reasons bridges are safe today is because we have safety standards and not everybody can build one", but yours is much better. -- Pozdr rysiek