[OLPC Security] Re: Public release: OLPC Bitfrost security platform specification

Simson L. Garfinkel's Treo 700p simsong at acm.org
Wed Feb 7 14:21:33 EST 2007


we could make it a 'c' instead of a 't' to avoid any namespace collision, at the risk of annoying the pen maker
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 ..... Original Message .......
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:14:36 -0800 "Ivan Krstić" <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
>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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>Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D
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