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May/08
15
Episode 5 – Linux Security, LSPP and MLS with George Wilson
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George Wilson is interviewed about the Labeled Security Protection Profile and the Multi-Level Security projects on Linux.
Additional Information
- General Security Textbook that Describes MLS – Ross Anderson, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, Wiley, January 22, 2001, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
- Formal Multi-Level Security Definition – D. Elliott Bell and Leonard J. La Padula, Secure Computer Systems: Unified Exposition and MULTICS Interpretation, Technical Report MTR-2997 Rev. 1, MITRE, 1976, http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/bell76.pdf
- NSA Rational for Mandatory Access Control – Loscocco, Peter, et al., “The Inevitability of Failure: The Flawed Assumption of Security in Modern Computing Environments”, Proceedings of the 21st National Information Systems Security Conference, October 1998, http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/inevitability/
- SE Linux Textbook – Mayer, Frank, et al., SELinux by Example, Prentice Hall, July 2007, http://www.tresys.com/selinux/selinux-book.html
- Common Criteria Validated Product Lists
- Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, Zertifizierungsreporte,Website, http://www.bsi.bund.de/zertifiz/zert/report.htm
- National Information Assurance Partnership, Validated Products List, Website, http://www.niap-ccevs.org/cc-scheme/vpl/
- Common Criteria Protection Profiles
- National Institute for Standards and Technology, Role Based Access Control Protection Profile, Version 1.0, July 1998, http://niap-ccevs.org/cc-scheme/pp/archived/pp_rbac_v1.0.pdf
- National Security Agency, Controlled Access Protection Profile, Version 1.d, October 1999, http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/public/files/ppfiles/capp.pdf
- National Security Agency, Labeled Security Protection Profile, Version 1.b, October 1999, http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/public/files/ppfiles/lspp.pdf
- NSA Security Enhanced Linux Website – http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
- RHEL 5 LSPP FTP Site – ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/eal/EAL4_RHEL5/IBM/
- RHEL 5 LSPP Evaluated Configuration Guide – IBM, LSPP EAL4 Evaluated Configuration Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM hardware, May 2007, Website, http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/linux/RHEL-LSPP-EAL4-IBM-Configuration-Guide.pdf
A discussion about the IBM LTC efforts to enable and provide optimizations for Power and PowerPC based hardware.
Additional Information
- Power Hardware support at http://www-03.ibm.com/linux/prod_svc.html
- powerpc cpu add on for glibc at http://penguinppc.org/dev/glibc/glibc-powerpc-cpu-addon.html
- oprofile for power at http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/news/
- valgrind for power at http://valgrind.org/
- performance inspector for power at http://perfinsp.sourceforge.net/
- fdpr pro at http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/fdprpro
- gcc for power at http://gcc.gnu.org/
- Advanced Toolchain for power at ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/at05/
A discussion about the hugetlbfs project.
Additional Information
- libhugetlbfs home page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/libhugetlbfs
- Developers page for libhugetlbfs at http://libhugetlbfs.ozlabs.org/
Apr/08
25
Episode 2 – Realtime Linux with Paul McKenney
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The second in a two part conversation with Paul McKenney about the Realtime Linux Project.
Additional Information
- RT Linux – http://www.rtlinuxfree.com
- Redhat MRG – http://www.redhat.com/mrg/
- Novell Enterprise Realtime – http://www.novell.com/products/realtime/
- Realtime Patchset – http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/
- Ubuntu Realtime – http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/admin/linux-lowlatency
- Linux Weekly News – http://lwn.net
Apr/08
18
Episode 1 – Realtime Linux with Paul McKenney
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The first in a two part conversion with Paul McKenney about the Realtime Linux project.
Additional Information
- January 2007 Linux Journal article “SMP and Embedded Real Time” at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9361
- Realtime Linux Community Wiki at http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
- Realtime Java articles on developerWorks at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=Real+time+Java+Part&S_TACT=105AGX02&S_CMP=ART
- IBM Systems Journal on Realtime at http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sjpip.html
