Re: secure computing for 2.6.7

From: Stephen Smalley
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 07:42:54 EST


On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 15:27, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Am I right to think that this could complement nicely our plans
> described at www.namesys.com/blackbox_security.html

Hi Hans,

Out of curiosity, what do you think that this proposal will achieve that
cannot already be done via SELinux policy? SELinux policy can already
express access rules based not only on the executable and user, but even
the entire call chain that led to a given executable.

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Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
National Security Agency

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