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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:51:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        andrewr <andrewr@slack.net>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disapointing security architecture
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990312084725.6494Q-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <199903120628.WAA73182@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     It would be hillarious if we could get a C2 certification for a base
>     GENERIC system.

I think that would be great also, although possibly not GENERIC :-).
POSIX.1e was intended to match the requirements of the various colored
books.  Once we have Auditing and ACLs, I suspect we are getting fairly
close to C2-capable.  I've never actually read those specs though--anyone
know if they are still available, and if so have an ISBN?  If not, I can
go dig up a reference librarian and have them find it for me, but Amazon
is usually easiest :-).  

C2 certification is presumably also an expensive process; if someone wants
to find a sponsor, we could almost certainly achieve C2 compliance with a
little restriction of the base system and appropriate POSIX.1e options.
Having a nice big "C2-Compliant!" stamp on the 4.0 CD would blow the
competition out of the water (so to speak) and certainly be excellent PR.

  Robert N Watson 

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