Monday, October 17, 2022

Google shows off KataOS, a secure operating system for embedded and edge devices written in Rust

Good news! Rusty operating systems anyone? 😊 However, it is still work in progress.

"Google has unveiled KataOS, an early exploration into a new secure operating system for embedded systems on open-source RISC-V chips. ...
it eliminates entire classes of bugs, such as off-by-one errors and buffer overflows ... The project's GitHub page emphasizes that KataOS and its umbrella project name, Sparrow, "are definitely a work in progress". Sparrow is a reference implementation of KataOS. ...
The goal is to build verifiably secure systems for embedded hardware or edge devices like network-connected cameras used to capture images that are processed on-device or in the cloud for machine learning. ...
The OS is being built with the new sel4 "security-first" microkernel. It's open source ...
Data61, the digital arm of Australia's research agency CSIRO, announced sel4 in 2020 as a mathematically proven correct, bug-free kernel. ..."

Google shows off KataOS, a secure operating system written in Rust | ZDNET Smart devices need better security and Google thinks KataOS, written in the Rust programming language, could help.

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