On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:27:03 -0800, Andreas Raab andreas.raab@gmx.de wrote:
There is hardly any goal for which shrinking is a more decidedly unsuited approach than security. While it may be possible to plug a few holes that way (which is probably what you were thinking, e.g., "remove the dangerous code" somehow) a truly secure system is one that never had that dangerous code in the first place, e.g., was built without it.
As I said to Paul, I thought the discussion had already remoevd building-from-scratch as an option, and the question was, "Given the vast bandwidth and disk space we all have, why bother with shrinking at all?"