Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 12:44:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Mark S Feldman <feldman@tislabs.com> Cc: ark@eltex.ru, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Generic Software Wrappers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990409123929.21011D-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <199904091449.KAA21446@clipper.gw.tislabs.com>
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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Mark S Feldman wrote: > > Is there a commercial/less restrictive license available? > > (if yes) how much does it cost? > > There's no other license. At least, not yet. Since the current > release is a research prototype (limited OS versions, expert-friendly, > unoptimized, with more than a slight chance of bugs that could cause a > kernel panic), the idea of paying for it may be a bit premature. The > current license looks to be perfectly adequate for downloading and > experimenting with the code. > > We're still working on our NT port and, as we write new wrappers and > use the system on FreeBSD and Solaris, we will be fixing bugs and > adding functionality. We'll probably be putting out another release > in the next month or two. Our goals for distributing the code are to > facilitate research and to see if there's interest in the technology. As I mentioned in a private mail to Mark and that I'll now mention in a public forum: in a few weeks after I've turned in my thesis and finished up a plethora of other projects, I'll look at porting the TISLabs code forward to 3.x/4.x. The work is of interest to me research-wise, at least, because it is a more general form of my freebsd tokens behavior which attempts to impose alternative security semantics on a traditional operating system; the PAG support in Arla is presumably similar in concept. Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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