In the wise words of Matthew Micene:

> On Wednesday 14 February 2001 01:36 pm, Jay Beale wrote:
>
> > It sounds like you've got something good going. Let's take a look.
> > I'll admit that I'm weighing Medusa DS9 more than LIDS, and SeLinux more
>
> Jay,
> I've got a general sort of question that I was wondering if you could
> answer. You allude to SeLinux and Medusa as things you are looking into,
> as well as LIDS. In light of your hiring and Civileme's firewall
> project, what is the future for Mandrake's security efforts? Security is
> important, and is an influencing factor for a lot of people using network
> operating systems. Is there a move to make Mandrake a secure
> distribution? More secure on default install? What about the inclusion
> of other security tools like StackGuard and the like? Any comments would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> (No, not a journalist, just someone who has to do all this by hand right
> now :)

Matthew,

  I think we've got lots of ideas and we're figuring out both which and how
we'll implement them. For starters, I'm helping to include Bastille Linux in
the distro and to harden the operating system configs in general. From there,
I think we've got tentative plans to work on including a kernel security
program: Medusa DS9, SeLinux or LIDS. I'm leaning towards SeLinux in the long
run.

  I'm sorry if I take some time to reply -- we're very busy in the Paris
office right now.

 - Jay

-- 
Jay Beale               
Security Team Director                  Lead Developer
Mandrakesoft                            Bastille Linux
http://www.mandrakesoft.com             http://www.bastille-linux.org

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