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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-13 17:11:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-13 17:11:51 +0100 |
| commit | 2d75167da62e3486836e5f1773e5f1ab06e43fe8 (patch) | |
| tree | e44fc83e0b1419836d1b21652ad1d38b8d0af2c4 /trust.mdwn | |
| parent | 217998d56f5b6424a685f8c87f2c0e924d1c89da (diff) | |
| parent | 5c5c16e265d8ef56b71f319885f32bf144bdea23 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into external_pager_mechanism
Conflicts:
microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism.mdwn
Diffstat (limited to 'trust.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | trust.mdwn | 25 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 16 deletions
@@ -1,19 +1,12 @@ -[[license text=""" -Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] -Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the -terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version -published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no -Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included -in the section entitled [[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl.txt]]. - -By contributing to this page, you agree to assign copyright for your -contribution to the Free Software Foundation. The Free Software Foundation -promises to always use either a verbatim copying license or a free -documentation license when publishing your contribution. We grant you back all -your rights under copyright, including the rights to copy, modify, and -redistribute your contributions. -"""]] +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] The word trust is used in a number of contexts with different technical meanings. Sometimes it is used to confuse, for instance trusted computing is rarely about @@ -25,7 +18,7 @@ user. When we say that a program trusts another, we mean that [[correctness]] of the former depends on the cooperation of the latter. For instance, when a user runs ssh, the user's intention is that all communication is encrypted. In this case, -the user trusts that the ssh binary respects this intent. In Unix, a program's +the user trusts that the ssh binary respects this intent. In [[Unix]], a program's [[tcb]] consists not only of the kernel (and all the drivers, file systems and protocol stacks that it contains) but every program running under the same UID; it is impossible to protect against |