Bitfrost, the OLPC security system February 15, 2007
Posted by telecompak in Education, OLPC, Security.add a comment
Since there is a remote chance of the ‘Gorement’ buying into the OLPC project we present some reading on its security system. The author is Ivan Krstić.
The architecture-level non-technical specification for Bitfrost, the security platform on the One Laptop per Child machines.
A request for comments is here (the Wiki was overloaded and unreachable when I had a look)
Slashdot discussion
Wired article
LWN article
Techdirt has a comment about backdoors.
People, lets remember that this is all Alpha stage stuff. The security design is just a design. The first Laptops have left the factory, but they are just the prototypes. Next (Beta) stage is 2500 pieces going out for field testing. This is a major project and it is not going to happen overnight.
