POSSE project
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The Portable Open Source Security Elements (POSSE) project was a co-operative venture between the
. The project ran from 2001 to April 2003, when the grant from DARPA was prematurely terminated.Overview
This was a security initiative directed by the University of Pennsylvania Distributed Systems Laboratory and paid for through the Composable High Assurance Trusted Systems programme. POSSE was a US$2,125,000 grant "to introduce advanced security features used in special-purpose government computers into standard office PCs."[1] The United States government hoped to benefit from the availability of better security features in affordable, standardized computers and software. OpenBSD was selected as "the computing world’s most secure forum for the development of open-source software" and approximately US$1,000,000 was allotted to its development.
Colleagues in the POSSE project included
In April 2003, speaking in an interview to the Canadian newspaper
References
- ^ a b "$2.1 Million: Integrate Security Features into Computers". University of Pennsylvania Almanac. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ a b Lee, Jennifer (24 April 2003). "Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments". New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2016.