Comment by eddythompson80
21 hours ago
Yeah, all security design guarantees are as good as the implementation at the end of the day. All the fancy hashing and encryption math in the world isn't gonna save you from an erroneous `"" == ""` check or an invalid reference check.
I was replying to OP saying it's the same "approach" as Xen, if your preference is "approach" based. It's fair though to point to Nova's smaller code base. It's becoming an important metric for me in general (how big is the code base). It's not a bullet proof thing, but having a smaller code base is a positive sign in 2026 for me.
Novas core seems to be formally verified which rules out a vast amount of bug categories that can happen with xen, including this one
Interesting, I'll have to learn more about Nova.
See Udos most recent talk at 3mdeb Boot Mastery Conference.
He is an ex Intel CPU engineer and the depth of his thought into the security design had me questioning my life choices.
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