Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 05:36:14PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: but what fact are these fears based in? would the nsa really plop a backdoor in an opensource project, hoping it missed and accepted with the rest of the code? i doubt it. their whole (advertised) motive was to protect against the

NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Brent Fulgham
No doubt most of you have seen the NSA's secure linux posting on Slashdot this morning. Looking at: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/docs.html there appears to be several utilities that have been updated to provide enhanced security. Should we be merging these patches into Debian, assuming they

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of Brent Fulgham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): No doubt most of you have seen the NSA's secure linux posting on Slashdot this morning. Looking at: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/docs.html there appears to be several utilities that have been updated to provide enhanced

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brent Fulgham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No doubt most of you have seen the NSA's secure linux posting on Slashdot this morning. Looking at: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/docs.html there appears to be several utilities that have been updated to provide enhanced

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Buddha Buck
At 04:38 PM 12-22-2000 -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: from the secret journal of Brent Fulgham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): No doubt most of you have seen the NSA's secure linux posting on Slashdot this morning. Looking at: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/docs.html there appears to be several utilities that

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of Buddha Buck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): unless we have a policy against security, it should be fine. :) it's all gpl. i posted that before i hit the download page. Security-enhanced Linux is not an attempt to correct any flaws that may currently exist in Linux. Instead,

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Britton
Pardon my paranoia, but even if it was worth making all the changes they are talking about (which are pretty extensive), I'd want to see anything coming from the NSA audited carefully before being included. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. On Fri, 22 Dec 2000,

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of Britton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Pardon my paranoia, but even if it was worth making all the changes they are talking about (which are pretty extensive), I'd want to see anything coming from the NSA audited carefully before being included. Britton Kerin you're

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Britton
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Jacob Kuntz wrote: from the secret journal of Britton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Pardon my paranoia, but even if it was worth making all the changes they are talking about (which are pretty extensive), I'd want to see anything coming from the NSA audited carefully before