From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 9 11: 3:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E613237B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:03:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.61.41.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3462743E4A for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:03:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rodrigc@attbi.com) Received: from dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (localhost.ne.attbi.com [127.0.0.1]) by dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g99I4bCK007985; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:04:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rodrigc@dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g99I4ato007984; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:04:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:04:36 -0400 From: Craig Rodrigues To: Steve Kudlak Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD usage in safety-critical environments Message-ID: <20021009140436.A7948@attbi.com> References: <8F329FEDF58BD411BE5200508B10DA7607D71A12@exchptc1.switch.com> <20021009134001.A7815@attbi.com> <3DA46F74.461FEB85@ovis.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3DA46F74.461FEB85@ovis.net>; from chromexa@ovis.net on Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:03:32PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:03:32PM -0400, Steve Kudlak wrote: > Is there a place for *BSD security freaks to go and discuss systems? > I get lots of security questions, usually these are broad level questions > and nothing like the "government authority certification body" sorts > of things. Usually they are the usual user questions that come to > systems people. The folks that faint when they see me reading > FreeBSD hackers and go: "How can you read that..." As an aside > right now my big thing is convincing people in remote areas that > *nix, FreeBSD et al provide a clear and better alternative to windows. Your question is a bit off-topic in terms of certification, although security is an important part of safety. See the list of FreeBSD mailing lists: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL freebsd-security or freebsd-security-notifications might be appropriate for your needs. There is a lot of FreeBSD security-related work going on in the TrustedBSD project ( http://www.trustedbsd.org ). Another BSD project, OpenBSD ( http://www.openbsd.org ), has security and safety as its primary focus. -- Craig Rodrigues http://www.gis.net/~craigr rodrigc@attbi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message