Forwarded from: Russell Coker <russellcoker.com.au>
Cc: rzaratestarpower.net

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:02, you wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,53004,00.html
>
> By Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate
> 2:00 a.m. June 11, 2002 PDT
>
> Part one of a three-part series.
>
> WASHINGTON -- Super-secure additions to the Linux operating system
> are inching closer to the mainstream.
>
> Savage says: "Unless you know security, it's very difficult. Unless
> you've ever worked in multi-level security, I'd say don't even
> attempt to incorporate because of the terminology it uses. To most
> people it's gobbledygook. Most people can't understand it. If you
> don't know about security, it's not a good thing to learn."

The NSA guys generally recommend not using MLS, and it's marked as
experimental in the kernel patch.

> A Red Hat version of SELinux is available at sourceforge.net.

RPM packages for some parts of SE Linux are available from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/selinux/ . Debian packages for much more of
SE Linux are available from the Debian site and from my site
http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ .

Russell Coker

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