From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 25 22: 0:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6B337B581 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:00:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA04345; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:59:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <397E7133.2126EB17@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:03:47 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Reed Cc: Warner Losh , john1000@cwcom.net, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: orange book rating for freebsd References: <200007250619.QAA05994@cairo.anu.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Darren Reed wrote: > > C2 is just a matter of someone with money giving a box to the > NSA, appropriately configured and with suitable documentation, for review. Please note that the certification would apply only to identical systems: hardware, software, and even the configuration would have to be the same. Changing the video card or even the keyboard would invalidate the rating and require an additional rating for the new system. Yes, the additional rating SHOULD be trivial, but with the US federal gummint, you can never tell. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message