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Red Hat Linux Gets Top Govt. Security Rating

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the take-that-to-yer-boss-and-shove-it dept.

zakeria writes "Red Hat Linux has received a new level of security certification that should make the software more appealing to some government agencies. Earlier this month IBM was able to achieve EAL4 Augmented with ALC_FLR.3 certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, putting it on a par with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Trusted Solaris operating system, said Dan Frye, vice president of open systems with IBM."

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  1. Re:For people who don't grok EAL4 and ALC_FLR.3 by crush · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's worth pointing out that this is actually equivalent to a "B1" TCSEC rating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCSEC and that it's impossible to get any higher rating for a commodity operating system. This is all specifically due to the SELinux support in Red Hat EL (and consequently CentOS and Fedora and other derivatives). Supposedly SuSE/Novell are trying to achieve this rating ATM but due to the limitations of AppArmor compared to SELinux it seems unlikely that they will.