IP: Ros: enhanced security for Linux (FWD)

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "Todd Heberlein" <todd () netsq com>
> To: "DARPA IA" <iaipt () archive ia isotic org>
> Subject: enhanced security for Linux
> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:24:44 -0800
> Organization: Net Squared, Inc.
>
> NSA has released some software for Linux that provides a number of
> wrapper-like capabilities.  Several groups familiar to the DARPA crowd
> were involved.
>
> http://www.nsa.gov/releases/selinux_01022001.html
>
> "The NSA is pleased to announce that it has developed, and is making
> available to the public, a prototype version of a security-enhanced
> Linux system. The prototype includes enhancements to Linux that provide
> new, stronger protection against tampering and bypassing of application
> security mechanisms and greater limits on the damage that can be caused
> by malicious or flawed applications.
> ...
> The security-enhanced Linux prototype was developed in conjunction with
> research partners from NAI Labs, Secure Computing Corporation (SCC), and
> MITRE Corporation."
>
> Todd
>
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