Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:23:53 +0400 From: "Nickolay A. Kritsky" <nkritsky@internethelp.ru> To: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Certification (was RE: realpath(3) et al) Message-ID: <150361279001.20030813022353@internethelp.ru> In-Reply-To: <004201c3611f$4fda68a0$9f8d2ed5@internal> References: <004201c3611f$4fda68a0$9f8d2ed5@internal>
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Hello Devon, go to -chat please with this discussion. Or maybe to -advocacy no oofence meant. it's just off-topic for this list. Wednesday, August 13, 2003, 2:16:00 AM, you wrote: DHOD> Well this takes about $1,000,000 off our previous figure. DHOD> --Devon >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >> Van: owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- >> security@freebsd.org] Namens twig les >> Verzonden: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:13 AM >> Aan: Darren Reed >> CC: security@freebsd.org >> Onderwerp: Re: Certification (was RE: realpath(3) et al) >> >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security- >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org" DHOD> _______________________________________________ DHOD> freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list DHOD> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security DHOD> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ;------------------------------------------- ; NKritsky ; mailto:nkritsky@internethelp.ru
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