Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:06:43 -0500 | From | Sandy Harris <> |
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Casey Schaufler wrote: > > "Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > > > Anyone looked into this? > > It's an implementation of Domain Enforcement, ported > from the flask project. It is a prototype.
These folks are good at what they do and the code is GPL. It is worth starting to consider whether this code, or code from one of the other security-enhancement projects, should be included in the standard kernel for 2.6 or 3.0.
A more secure Linux would be great for a lot of people, but we need to look at the trade-offs. Does the approach damage usability? Are there better ways? ... ?
> Persons looking for backdoors, tricks, traps, snares, > or ice are going to be disappointed.
That won't, and shouldn't, stop anyone having a good look.
> It's just code like everone else produces.
So people looking at it may find bugs and vulnerabilities the implementers hadn't considered. Great.
> Much of the work was done > by employees of the NSA. They should be applauded for > the effort they put in just to be allowed to make this > available.
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