RE: The Register: OpenVMS among most-secure of operating systems

From: Daniel Allen (dallen_at_nist.gov)
Date: 01/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:55:08 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Koehler [mailto:koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:10 AM
> To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
> Subject: Re: The Register: OpenVMS among most-secure of operating
> systems
>
>
> In article <bujprv$eh8$1@new-usenet.uk.sun.com>, Andrew Harrison
> SUNUK Consultancy <Andrew_No.Harrison_No@nospamn.sun.com> writes:
> >
> > 7.3.x is less secure than 5.3 even CERT, not a good
> > source show that. Not suprising, its much bigger,
> > chunks of it are written in languages not extensively
> > used in VMS 5.3 and it does a lot more.
>
> You seem to have bought into the Microsoft explanation that
> more == less quality
>
> You need more experience with good software.

        My thoughts exactly. I've been involved with VMS since the beginning (our
first system
arrived with V1.? but was installed with V2) and security and reliability
have steadily improved through later (bigger and badder - "bad"'s a good
thing ;-) versions. Major releases sometimes stumbled but VMS engineering
has always remedied any initial problems very quickly and they typically
were simple errors in execution - not the basic design flaws that have
plagued many major and popular software systems. It helps if you start with
security as job 1.

Dan

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