RHEL 5 going for Common Criteria EAL 4 rating [LWN.net]

RHEL 5 going for Common Criteria EAL 4 rating

Posted Sep 27, 2005 20:14 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: RHEL 5 going for Common Criteria EAL 4 rating by jamesmrh
Parent article: RHEL 5 going for Common Criteria EAL 4 rating

>What we're trying to do with SELinux, though, is make the technology available in the standard, current product, rather than an old fork of the OS like traditional "trusted" OS vendors.

Good move. Do the same with GFS and Xen in RHEL5 and you'll have many more people jumping on the virualisation and cluster bandwagon. The current GFS/Cluster suite subscription fees are really not something your average company can afford. And yet, getting the hardware to run it almost is.

Bring it to the masses and see the adoption rate skyrocket.

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RHEL 5 going for Common Criteria EAL 4 rating

Posted Sep 27, 2005 21:33 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Ya, I've been following0 SELinux developements since it was just patches from NSA. It's pretty neat stuff and I've always been apreciative of Redhat/Fedora's work to make it more usefull for the average person.

Still kinda skirted around the issue, but it's a good enough answer so I'm happy. Just be carefull how it gets promoted, you don't want people to think: "Oh, look Redhat just reached the same level of security that Microsoft got back with Windows 2000 SP3." (which is obviously untrue)