TrustedBSD - Definition and Overview

The TrustedBSD project provides a set of trusted operating system extensions to the FreeBSD operating system, targeting the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (see also Orange Book). This project is still under development, and many of these trusted extensions have been integrated into the FreeBSD 5.x current development track.

The main focuses of the TrustedBSD project are working on access control lists, event auditing, extended attributes, fine-grained capabilities, and mandatory access controls. As part of the TrustedBSD project, there is also a port of the NSA's FLASK/TE implementation in SELinux to run on FreeBSD. current development track.

See also

• Secure operating systems
• Security focused operating systems
• Capability_(computers)
• Capabilities vs. ACLs
• Computer security
• Security engineering

External links

• TrustedBSD Home Page (http://www.trustedbsd.org/)

Attribution

Much of the information in this article was taken from information discussed on the mailing lists and on the TrustedBSD website. The TrustedBSD project was started primarily by Robert Watson, an active FreeBSD committer.