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@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ title: The concept and team
## Mission
At robur we strive to develop robust digital infrastructure. We achieve this goal
by continuous maintainence of permissively licensed (MIT/ISC/BSD) open
by continuous maintenance of permissively licensed (MIT/ISC/BSD) open
source libraries, which are used by various partners and supporters.
Robur is a non-profit endeavour that strives to enable more people to run their own digital
@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Eva is an infrastructure software engineer and a researcher.
She studied Applied Computer Science in the Natural Sciences, and developed a typechecker for a compiler of a language for optimization problems. In her PhD project she developed metrics to compare forest data structures, with an application in molecular structure comparison. Working as a postdoc in cancer research on molecular structure prediction, she found her way to Brooklyn and Berlin.
In the US tech industry, she works on infrastucture problems with distributed systems on a large scale with millions of users, developing API infrastructure and search infrastructure, with a focus on stateless systems.
In the US tech industry, she works on infrastructure problems with distributed systems on a large scale with millions of users, developing API infrastructure and search infrastructure, with a focus on stateless systems.
Her Erdős number is 4.

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@ -47,4 +47,4 @@ formally verify an entire virtual machine using a theorem
prover.
The boot time of a unikernel can be measured in a few milliseconds, redeployment
after updates is instantenous. We can create unikernels on demand.
after updates is instantaneous. We can create unikernels on demand.

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@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ to make sure to use appropriate locking strategies to avoid reentrant execution
A recent example for code which is not safe under reentrant execution
[in Ethereum](http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/06/18/analysis-of-the-dao-exploit/)
lead to a huge amount of ether being transferred.
lead to a huge amount of ether being stolen.
Established software like the [Firefox JavaScript engine](http://www.nist.org/news.php?extend.175),
or [PHP](https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74308) shows similar problems on a regular basis.
@ -80,13 +80,15 @@ address mapping for each process. Since a unikernel is only a single service, it
uses a single address space, avoiding the need for complex address mapping code
altogether.
[//]: # (I think we should explain the context for mentioning Xen here)
An example for corrupting the page table is [Xen's XSA-182](http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-182.html).
### Simple library model with localized reasoning
A MirageOS unikernel is much smaller than a comparable UNIX
virtual machine. By avoiding superfluous code we decrease the attack surface
immensly.
immensely.
Consider the breakdown of the code of the example system [Bitcoin Piñata](/Projects/Pinata) compared
to a virtual machine using Linux and OpenSSL, measured in thousands of lines of code: