From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 30 17:53:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE62737B40F for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 17:53:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id f910aaB69645; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 20:36:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 20:36:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Robert Clark Cc: Gregory Sutter , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NAI Labs Announces DARPA-Funded FreeBSD Security Initiative In-Reply-To: <20010930132326.A1035@darkstar.gte.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Robert Clark wrote: > How have things been going? > > I see active involvement in the list, by people from NAI. > > What has been happening? How are people? We're really still just ramping up at this points -- government contracts have a long an laborous life cycle. The process of getting our sub-contractors going took a while due to contracting complications, and so that work should be going soon also, and will involve more of the FreeBSD development community, so there should be more visible action on that front. One area where we've made a lot of progress is in porting the LOMAC security work to FreeBSD -- that's almost done, and we actually hope to import it as an optional kernel module in FreeBSD 5.0 (if you follow the lomac-users list, you've seen new releases come out supporting FreeBSD, and under a BSD license). You will be seeing some announcements about that soon. Most of my travel and TrustedBSD work is now being funded by DARPA, and so more of that is happening, and shortly the resources allocates to LOMAC will be going towards more TrustedBSD work. We're also looking to hire one or two FreeBSD kernel-hacking security types, especially if they live in the Washington, DC area. We also have LA and Santa Clara offices (resumes to rwatson@tislabs.com). Since there has been substantial interest, I'll send out a status note in the next two weeks to give a bit more of a material resposne :-). Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message