From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 13 21:24:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA20031 for security-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 21:24:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA20007; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 21:24:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-206.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.206]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA14425; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:24:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA17794; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:24:29 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199710140424.XAA17794@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Message from Christopher Petrilli of "Mon, 13 Oct 1997 22:07:19 EDT." <199710140208.WAA00781@dworkin.amber.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:24:27 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (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. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.