Smartcards, one alternative solution to it..?

[Janusz A. Urbanowicz]

> for workstation:
> 
> what about booting a secure protected mode virtual machine minimal open
> source linux box within a normal-use os?
> all security software and secure shells, mails, document editors running in
> this box?
> modern processors protected mode should work well...

You are reinventing MS Palladium/NGSCB here.

> is there a open counterpart to vmware?

Bochs86.

> maybe a solution.

It is not a solution.

Alex