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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:31:02 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jim Bryant <jbryant@unix.tfs.net>
To:        dkelly@hiwaay.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <199710140531.AAA02530@argus.tfs.net>
In-Reply-To: <199710140424.XAA17794@nospam.hiwaay.net> from "dkelly@hiwaay.net" at "Oct 13, 97 11:24:27 pm"

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> (why hasn't this moved completely to freebsd-security?)
> 
> Christopher Petrilli writes:
> >
> > But what about when you have 10,000 users, and you need 486 of them to 
> > not have access?  Do you see the issue of performance slowly creeping up 
> > when yyou have 50,000 groups?  This becomes a hideous nightmare.
> 
> Just because its a hideous nightmare doesn't mean it doesn't meet spec. :-)
> 
> Remember, for the most part we're talking about security specs brought to
> you by the same government that would limit cryptography to key escrow 
> techniques.

the same government that managed to keep the f117a under wraps for 25
years...  despite all of the spies posing as ufo geeks at groom lake...

jim
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