+
+DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers.
+
+The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
+the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
+"During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
+to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
+specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
+industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
+Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
+computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
+while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
+put into service."
+
+"Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
+OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
+propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
+share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
+features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
+for the military and other high-security organizations. The
+government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
+computers with security features."
+
