US National Security Agency working with Linux

Fraser Campbell fraser-eicrhRFjby5dCsDujFhwbypxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org
Fri Feb 20 16:12:49 UTC 2004


On February 20, 2004 11:01 am, Rico Juan wrote:

> For those interested in security I came across today with this website
> where this guys released their own linux distro
>
> http://www.nsa.gov/selinux

Not quite correct.  They aren't releasing a complete distribution just 
security enhancements to the Linux kernel.  These enhancements provide a lot 
of security benefits unfortunately most of the major distributions don't 
support them out of the box.

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