Date: Sun, 6 Jul 97 14:27:48 -0400 From: Christopher Petrilli <petrilli@amber.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, "Colman Reilly" <careilly@monoid.cs.tcd.ie> Cc: "Adam Shostack" <adam@homeport.org>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Security Model/Target for FreeBSD or 4.4? Message-ID: <199707061827.OAA23298@chaos.amber.org>
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@time.cdrom.com) on 7/5/97 7:47 PM: >> I also spent a couple of hours fighting with Alta Vista looking for relevant >> documents and didn't find very much. Any other suggestions? > >/usr/src? :) > >Seriously, I doubt you'll find that anyone has sat down and documented >this aspect of the system specifically. If you want to study the >security implementation in detail, the sources remain the first and >foremost resource. In fact, they probably represent the ONLY resource. >Good luck! I will note that there has been off and on talk of a C2 certified FreeBSD implementation, which would require documentation. I think it's important to understand that few OSes (outside the "big boys" like VMS, MVS, VM, GUARDIAN, etc.) have documented formal security polcies. Mostly it's just whatever a programmer feels like. Christopher -- | Christopher Petrilli "That's right you're | petrilli@amber.org not from Texas."
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