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No Windows Qubes port due to Win API, architecture

posted by Cactus on Saturday February 22 2014, @05:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the get-outta-my-sandbox dept.

CQ writes:

Qubes-OS, the Security-by-Isolation, VM-based operating system, has concluded that a port to the Windows OS line isn't feasible. In this post, the CEO of Inivisble Things Labs outlines what she had hoped to accomplish with the port and her explaination why it was just not meant to be.

This paper [pdf] contains all the technical bits you need to know, and the explanation on why the Windows APIs and system architecture are not appropriate for the task of creating an isolation system. It also has some interesting (if that's your thing) information on the Windows security model.

Does anyone here have any experience with Qubes? Does it make sandboxing easy enough for day to day use?

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2014, @10:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2014, @10:45PM (#5048)

    If there is enough interest from the community, I'll ask the Qubes team if they'd like to do an "Ask Soylent".

    I don't know about others, but I would like that if it happened. I've been following the project on-and-off for a while because I find its security design, as well as virtualisation in general, an interesting topic.

    (Posted AC because I modded you up and don't want to obliterate it.)