Forwarded from: Russell Coker <russellat_private> Cc: rzarateat_private On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:02, you wrote: > http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,53004,00.html > > By Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate > 2:00 a.m. June 11, 2002 PDT > > Part one of a three-part series. > > WASHINGTON -- Super-secure additions to the Linux operating system > are inching closer to the mainstream. > > Savage says: "Unless you know security, it's very difficult. Unless > you've ever worked in multi-level security, I'd say don't even > attempt to incorporate because of the terminology it uses. To most > people it's gobbledygook. Most people can't understand it. If you > don't know about security, it's not a good thing to learn." The NSA guys generally recommend not using MLS, and it's marked as experimental in the kernel patch. > A Red Hat version of SELinux is available at sourceforge.net. RPM packages for some parts of SE Linux are available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/selinux/ . Debian packages for much more of SE Linux are available from the Debian site and from my site http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ . Russell Coker - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email majordomoat_private with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
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