Security is No Secret

LinuxSecurity.com: NSA takes its Flask architecture to the open-source community to offer an inexpensive route to trusted systems.Architecture created by the National Security Agency and expanded with help from the open-source community will save the Defense Department and intelligence agencies millions in hardware costs. With Flask, "we can guarantee that high-integrity data can't be corrupted by untrustworthy entities or that sensitive data doesn't leak to untrustworthy entities," said Stephen Smalley, one of the chief developers of Flask at NSA. The best part is that the technology requires no specialized hardware or operating system. What do you think about the Flask architecture? This article looks at this security architecture and how SELinux came about from it and it's impact on open source security.

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