Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 15:41 +0100, Tom Bachmann wrote:
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> Jonathan S. Shapiro schrieb:
> > Translucent storage does not undermine confinement at all, so your
> > supposition is mistaken.
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> But there is no constructor needed to confine a program.

Why do you believe this?

> As I understand it, the constructor serves as a trusted "mediator", that
> allows to check the confinedness without constructing the process (in
> non-translucent designs), that is, to run a program that is untrusted
> without risking leakage, and without inspecting it.

In EROS/Coyotos, this is true. Actually, it is a certifier, not a
mediator (the constructor does not remain in the loop after creation).

However: you ignored the other thing I said. Simply having a common
place to encapsulate these algorithms is a sufficient reason to have a
constructor.
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