Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:13:26 -0700 (PDT) From: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> To: Darren Reed <avalon@caligula.anu.edu.au> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Certification (was RE: realpath(3) et al) Message-ID: <20030812221326.25419.qmail@web10107.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200308122048.h7CKmw66011400@caligula.anu.edu.au>
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Just saw this from eWeek. "IBM, which paid roughly $500,000 for the testing, and SuSE (pronounced "SOOS-ah") were announcing the certification jointly. " The article is here: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1212529,00.asp --- Darren Reed <avalon@caligula.anu.edu.au> wrote: > In some mail from twig les, sie said: > > > > I actually just asked about FreeBSD's status regarding > Common > > Criteria last week on -questions but no one knew; one guy > > answered that it would be wasteful. Is this the cert on > > everyone's mind? It would be nice to have this cert for the > 5.x > > line but I understand that it is massively expensive and the > > resources may be better spent on development. Has the team > > discussed this? > > Yes, evaluation is massively expensive. Why ? > > Because you have to pay someone (at consultant rates) to do > the > evaluation. A single firewall product, in Australia, can > expect > a cost of between $200k and $400k, I'm told. Now put that in > perspective of size vs an entire operating system, including > larger project overheads, etc, and the number swells > dramatically. > Oh, those numbers are in Australian Dollars. > > Darren ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- Emo is what happens when the glee club goes punk. ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
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