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From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
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To: brian@firehouse.net, rivers@dignus.com
Subject: RE: C2 Trusted FreeBSD?
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> On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Simon Shapiro writes:> 
> > > 
> > > Hi Douglas Carmichael;  On 13-Oct-97 you wrote: 
> > > >  Could FreeBSD be made to comply with B1 or C2 trusted system standards
> > > >  FOR REAL (unlike NT that can only comply when not hooked up to a
> > > >  network)?
> > > 
> > > Last I checked (looooong time ago), Unix had the same problem.  TCP/IP was,
> > > at the time, inhenerntly un-Orangable.
> > > 
> > 
> >  Hmmm.. Data General has a variant of DG/UX which is at least B1 (if not
> > C2...)  Does anyone know the details there?   Perhaps I can dig up some
> > old contacts and find out what they did with this issue.
> > 
> > 	- Dave Rivers -
> > 
> > 
> 
> Do they?
> 
> Last I checked, it had not been out of evaluation yet. Has this changed?
> It wasnt on the NSA page as of a few weeks ago.
> 
> 
> 
> 

 Wow!  I know they started working on it around 1989/1990 - if it hasn't
gotten out of validation yet, that says a lot...

	- Dave Rivers -