Guy Baruch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you can (in my oppinion should) mention the american NSA's secure linux: > > http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html > > a technical part of the american inteligence community choose a free > dev-model > > and linux as a platform devellop a secure system. > > this will probably interest most MKs better than scientific papers, > since it is a decision, > > not an academic list of recommendations and criteria.
While you can (and possibly should) mention NSA, it is important not to distort reality. I have not seen any indication that OSS or Linux was "chosen" by NSA or any other US intelligence agency over proprietary s/w. IIRC, SELinux is a project that is supposed to make Linux satisfy some provisional requirements for usage in sensitive government and industrial environments. It's all in the web page you quoted. The FAQ clearly says there is "no special or additional approval for government use over any other version of Linux." FAQ #9 explains why Linux was chosen for _research_. I am quite sure that NSA (IAD) have Windows code and work on securing it. No, I don't know that. ;-) -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "IBM is a pretty big company." [W. Gates] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
