On 10/04/2000 at 10.31 Marco Molteni <molter@sofia.csl.sri.com> wrote:
>FYI
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>Marco
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>Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 12:26:28 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
>Reply-To: TrustedBSD Discussion List <trustedbsd-discuss@trustedbsd.org>
>To: TrustedBSD Announcements List <trustedbsd-announce@trustedbsd.org>
>Subject: Announcement: TrustedBSD Extensions Project
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>I'm happy to announce the TrustedBSD Project, a set of trusted operating
>system extensions for the FreeBSD operating system. TrustedBSD consists
>of a set of kernel and user-land extensions targeting the Orange Book B1
>evaluation criteria. Development is currently underway, and most of the
>code is destined to go back into the base FreeBSD operating system;
>however, as some components are both extensive and intrusive, the
>TrustedBSD project provides a forum for discussion, design, and
>development in the interim.
>
>Trusted operating systems have a variety of requirements above and beyond
>the normal operating system feature set, including the requirement that
>they be extensively documented. To whet your appetite, the following
>features are among those under development:
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>o Extensible and audited authorization framework for integrating
> third-party authorization modules, including general-purpose subject and
> object labeling and centralized policy management.
>
>o Fine-grained capabilities for system functions so as to implement least-
> privilege and reduce the risks of compromise.
>
>o Mandatory access control for privacy and integrity, allowing FreeBSD to
> be used in environments hosting mutually suspicious parties and
> multi-level security models.
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>o Access control lists for the file system and other kernel resources
> allowing fine-grained and manageable discretionary access control
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>o Event auditing support and single-host modular IDS system to monitor
> security events and notify administrators in the event of irregularities
>
>The TrustedBSD extensions will be made available under a two-clause
>BSD-style license, which permits integration of the extensions into
>projects under almost any licensing model, both free and commercial.
>
>A web site is now online to act as a central source of information about
>the project, and as a distribution point for code not yet committed to the
>FreeBSD source repository.
>
> http://www.trustedbsd.org/
>
>There are also two mailing lists, trustedbsd-discuss and
>trustedbsd-announce; more mailing lists will be created as necessary. To
>subscribe to these mailing lists, please send email to:
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> majordomo@trustedbsd.org
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>Further information is available on the web site.
>
> Robert N M Watson
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