Rainbow: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 23:11, 28 August 2007

Rainbow is the implementation of the Bitfrost security specification. Rainbow:

Negotiates launching activities and creating a secure, minimal environment for their operation inside a 'Container', a way of isolating one activity from another. This includes limiting the scope of Filesystem, Network Access and CPU time that each activity has access to.
Creates a means for Updates to happen in a reliable and secure way.
Provides interfaces to VServer and other libraries that make the above possible

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 == Resources ==
-[http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=security;a=summary Code Repository]
+* [http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=security;a=summary Code Repository]
-[http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=security;a=blob;f=bitfrost.txt;h=96f4997602d817abf7be90a00bf68b3a79a73005;hb=HEAD Bitfrost Spec]
+* [http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=security;a=blob;f=bitfrost.txt;h=96f4997602d817abf7be90a00bf68b3a79a73005;hb=HEAD Bitfrost Spec]
-[http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=security;a=blob;f=rainbow/README;h=5e7f1051b43292a7af8bb0c6ae72987ad5d89b18;hb=HEAD README] - A description of the scope and design of Rainbow.
+* [http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=security;a=blob;f=rainbow/README;h=5e7f1051b43292a7af8bb0c6ae72987ad5d89b18;hb=HEAD README] - A description of the scope and design of Rainbow.
-[http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=security;a=blob;f=rainbow/NOTES;h=5277468b760c7d92d6713f5c0b6939ebf0978f2b;hb=HEAD Notes] - Useful notes on design and hurdles in developing Rainbow.
+* [http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=security;a=blob;f=rainbow/NOTES;h=5277468b760c7d92d6713f5c0b6939ebf0978f2b;hb=HEAD Notes] - Useful notes on design and hurdles in developing Rainbow.