From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 13 17:30:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA05740 for security-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:30:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.5.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA05704; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:30:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA28197; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:30:17 -0700 (MST) Received: from UNKNOWN(206.165.6.207), claiming to be "usr07.primenet.com" via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd028190; Tue Oct 14 00:30:13 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA15890; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:30:12 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710140030.RAA15890@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD? To: brian@firehouse.net (Brian Mitchell) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:30:12 +0000 (GMT) Cc: careilly@monoid.cs.tcd.ie, dcarmich@mcs.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Brian Mitchell" at Oct 13, 97 01:46:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > For those who want to learn more, the final evaluation reports for several > trusted unixes are available online. Trusted Xenix being one of the more > interesting ones (b2) - TIRIX is also online (b1) and NT (c2). [ ... ] You can not certify an OS. You can only certify an OS installed on a platform. Each different piece of hardware you run it on requires a seperate certification. The certification costs are just the man hours required to run the tests, for what that's worth. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.