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help me understand something.

> we’d need a way for the TCP packets to get from the operating system back into Coder for encryption.

yes, this is commonly done via OpenSSL for example.

> This is called a TUN device in unix-style operating systems and creating one requires elevated permissions

waitasec, wut? sure you could use a TUN device I guess, but assuming some kind of multi-tenant separation is an underlying assumption they didn't mention in their intro, couldn't you also use cgroup'd containers? sorry if I'm not fluent in the terminology.

i'm struggling to understand the constraints that push them towards gVisor. simply needing to do encryption doesn't seem like justification. i'm sure they have very good reasons, but needing to satisfy a financial regulator seems orthogonal at best. i would just like to understand those reasons.




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