[luau] IBM Clinches Government Security Certification for Linux - Short Full Article

Deven Phillips deven at hcc.hawaii.edu
Tue Aug 5 20:12:01 PDT 2003


Good info,

	They also mentioned in one article I read that they expect to acheive EAL3+ or EAL4 by the end of the year.

Deven


On Tuesday 05 August 2003 06:55 pm, whenever wrote:
> Good first step !
> SuSE site said it's EAL2+, far from the highest level claim by yahoo. In
> fact, security were not tested during EAL2, it's a structurally test.
>
> URL for what each EAL in CC means.
> http://www.commoncriteria.org/docs/EALs.html
>
> pdf show CC, ITSE and TCSEC, also the evaluation process.
> http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/nissc/1999/proceeding/papers/p15.pdf
>
>
> Just want to get the story correct for people who don't know what those
> evaluation were.
>
>
>
> On Tuesday 05 August 2003 12:14 pm,
>
> Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/HIDOE at notes.k12.hi.us wrote:
> > International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - news) and Linux (news -
> > web sites) distributor SuSE said on Tuesday that they received the
> > highest level of security evaluation used by governments when deciding to
> > use software in their organizations.
>
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