Re: Trusted Unices Aren't?

[Gordon Greene <Gordon.Greene () netsec net>]

> I certainly agree that there *is* a B1 VMS and that it's real B1 (i.e.,
> it's been evaluated, and not just marketing hype).  What I said was that
> VMS probably wasn't *designed* to be MLS.  Just as there are several
> evaluated B1 (and even B2) UNIX systems doesn't mean that UNIX was
> *designed* to be MLS.
I certainly wouldn't argue that.  I think Multics was the first OS designed
with MLS in mind.  I don't have direct experience with it, so I don't know
how far it got, but I distinctly recall Multics being the origin of
security labels in an OS.

There's a Multics history page at:

   http://www.best.com/~thvv/history.html

That info is probably hung off there someplace.