Nexus: An New Trustworthy Operating System
Posted by Ken Y-N on January 15th, 2010 at 02:37pm
I read recently about a new operating system being developed in Cornell University entitled Nexus (no relation to Google’s Nexus One!), that seems rather interesting. They are building it on a microkernel architecture to minimise the Trusted Computing Base size, introducing the idea of active attestation and secure memory regions directly supported by the operating system.
Sample applications built have been a media player with DRM and spam-free email (!). There’s also support for a Trusted Platform Module in there, although it seems to be v1.1 only.
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