BioSec 2012: Cheryl
Trying to tie Computer Security into all of this
Using Darwin’s approach
- Really slow: it took biology billions of years to get to the efficiency it now is at. How are we supposed to compete with that?
- If we follow the same process we are setting up for failure most of the time…species getting extinct because they failed most of the time
- Species survival is highly dependent on environment…computer security needs to basically work all the time independent of its environment …how is this going to work?
So for things to work:
- there needs be a lot of redundant stuff:
- Genes – redundant ways to get an amino acid
- Genome – copies of the same genes
- Pathways – many regulators
- diversity
- Biology is so good because there aren’t two things that are really the same…they have a lot in common…but there is that one small aspect that sets them apart…if they were all the same then one small thing just wipes all of them out
- Can this be done with computers…randomize things by adding introns (junk code)?