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Re: Trusted Solaris and MLS (All servers have MLS data)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Petrilli)
Tue Feb 18 15:00:39 1997

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:20:05 -0500
To: jay@homecom.com, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
From: petrilli@uol.com (Christopher Petrilli)
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

At 10:26 AM 2/17/97 -0500, Jay Heiser wrote:
>Jim Frank wrote:
>> 
>> Does anyone out there have information on trusted solaris and multi level
>> security .
>> I am told that there are machines and that they are approved for multi
>> level security.
>I actually helped build an MLS web server once -- interesting, but only 
>intelligence agencies (and very few of them) would buy the thing.

Having spent a long time working with various "agencies", they do use a lot
of CMW, esp. in the military.  However, it's largely dealing with multiple
SCI categories, rather than unclass v. class.

That's a big no-no.

Christopher Petrilli
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