Public release: OLPC Bitfrost security platform specification

Ivan Krstić krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu
Wed Feb 7 13:14:36 EST 2007


Carl-Daniel Hilfinger wrote:
> The name choice seems unfortunate. The first Google results
> for "Bitfrost" talk about a trojan horse named Bitfrost.

Peter Lorenzen wrote:
> Being a Dane I didn't notice the "t" in the first mail, you might
> consider droping it. In Norse mythology:

The system is named after exactly that mythological Bifrost (see the
closing word, chapter 11) until the very last second, at which point
Simson and I decided to change it to Bitfrost, having learned that there
is a product called Bifrost that is an iptables GUI for Linux.

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