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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