RE: New stacker performance results

From: Karl MacMillan (kmacmillan@private)
Date: Wed May 25 2005 - 19:14:26 PDT


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-security-module-bounces@private [mailto:linux-security-module-
> bounces@private] On Behalf Of Crispin Cowan
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:48 PM
> To: Colin Walters
> Cc: Stephen Smalley; linux-security-module@private
> Subject: Re: New stacker performance results
> 
> Colin Walters wrote:
> >On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 18:23 -0700, Crispin Cowan wrote:
> >
> >>James Morris wrote:
> >>
> >>>(I would argue that his "truly generic" requirement was fulfilled by
> >>>SELinux).
> >>>
> >>I argue that it definitely does not have such generality. A trivial
> >>proof of that is that some setting may require a solution that is much
> >>smaller (time, space, etc.) and thus SELinux would fail to qualify
> >>precisely because of its generality.
> >>
> >This is a "proof"?
> >
> SELinux is big, slow, and complicated. Not everyone likes that. QED :)
> 

Not to take this comment too seriously, but are you referring to the security
server currently provided by SELinux which implements TE or general framework
provided by SELinux (FLASK)? It doesn't seem like you are making that
distinction in your comments.

Karl

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> Crispin
> 
> --
> Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.                      http://immunix.com/~crispin/
> Director of Software Engineering, Novell  http://novell.com



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