User:Mstone/Rainflow

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Carrying on the tradition of naming software via puns, I'll lay down some thoughts here about software for, among other things, answering the question:

Should we run program X deisolated?

Background

<trac>5657</trac> asked for a way to automatically update Terminal that is not subject to spoofing.

One natural approach this is activity signing. However, as experience with X.509 has shown, the devil is truly in the details.

To date, we have seen several attempts to discover appropriate details:

[1]
User:Mstone/Commentaries/Bundles_1
runtime build customization thread and <trac>6432</trac>
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/security/2007-December/000341.html
horizontal distribution thread

Consequently, here's an attempt at details.