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Onboard the Vault itself is an ARM processor running ARTOS, a secure operating system focused on privacy and data security. Am I the only one wondering why the
by PinguTS 11y ago
Onboard the Vault itself is an ARM processor running ARTOS, a secure operating system focused on privacy and data security.
Am I the only one wondering why there is no information available about that OS? Google is in many ways committed to Open Source and then it is using a proprietary OS where I do not find any information about.
There is a Wikipedia comparison table with an outdated link. There is an old entry on a blog with basically zero information, except there where only a single person involved in designing and developing this OS. Which makes it suspicious to me regarding the claim "safe and secure".
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- sweis 11y agoLooks like they have some code on Github: https://github.com/ProjectVault/orp/tree/master/software/os/mselOS https://github.com/ProjectVault/orp/tree/master/software/os/...
- PinguTS 11y agoOK, that looks like the right way. But there is still a thing: the article reads ARM and this code is for openRISC 1200. Also this uses an OS called: mselOS Something is wrong. https://github.com/ProjectVault/orp/blob/master/mainpage.dox https://github.com/ProjectVault/orp/blob/master/mainpage.dox
- monocasa 11y agoThe dev board in the picture gallery says that it's an openRISC softcore. Maybe they've migrated to an ARM in the real formfactor? EDIT: Here are the ARM drivers in the OS. https://github.com/ProjectVault/orp/tree/master/software/os/mselOS/src/arch/arm https://github.com/ProjectVault/orp/tree/master/software/os/... It's a CortexM.
- anologwintermut 11y agoI'm 99% certain they meant Free RTOS[0] and someone just misheard. [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRTOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRTOS
- kqr2 11y agoI don't think FreeRTOS has an emphasis on security and privacy. It's strengths are portability, small footprint, and open source.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoI think "ARTOS" is a mishearing of "a RTOS".
- nickpsecurity 11y agoThat's very possible. It could be any RTOS with a good security track-record in industry, from OKL4 to INTEGRITY-178B. There's also a number of groups doing R&D on Assured Real-Time OS's so it could be that. That we still don't know and RTOS security is so hard bothers me about this.
- gillianseed 11y agoThe only potentially relevant 'ARTOS' I found was here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_real-time_operating_systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_real-time_operati... Which lists an active X86 project and a defunct ARM project named ARTOS, both proprietary.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoIn PinguTS's link, I found this document with a description on the RTOS: https://github.com/ProjectVault/orp/blob/master/software/os/mselOS/mselOS.dox https://github.com/ProjectVault/orp/blob/master/software/os/... I'll review it later on. Anyone else want to chime in about its security at this point?