Re: Combining Hurd and Qubes OS for security reasons? Possible?

[Richard Braun]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 05:25:08PM +0100, David Renz wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:56:23AM +0100, David Renz wrote:
> > > You can under no circumstances get a secure system running on one or
> > > multiple "system(s) of its/their own", because - as you have said it very
> > > precisely - you have no control over this.
> >
> > That's not what I said. First, you don't run a secure system "on one or
> > multiple systems of their own". You run one system among multiple ones.
> >
> 
> But the important thing about this is: Those other systems have access to
> your 'main system', as you also wrote in your last line - I don't believe
> that a protection would be possible, too.

Outside SMM, with an IOMMU, they can be restricted.

-- 
Richard Braun