Re: Computer Science and SE Linux

[Thomas Rozenbroek <tom.rozenbroek@comcast.net>]

Will these lecture(s) be recorded and made available to those of us, who 
are not able to attend?

Thank you for your efforts

Respectfully,

thr
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On 10/3/2015 6:38 AM, Russell Coker wrote:
> I'm going to offer a lecture about the Computer Science aspects of SE Linux in
> the near future.  Here's a quick summary of what I'm thinking of speaking
> about.
>
> MAC vs DAC.
>
> Domain-Type as a concept (not details of implementation).
>
> LSM as a concept.
>
> PAM and cron modifications.  Generally how the Unix users fit in with SE Linux
> and how that can be extended to other MAC systems.
>
> Why we modify init and what other options were tested.
>
> MLS as a concept in general.
>
> File labelling, why and how.
>
> Algorithms for optimising setfiles.
>
> I'd like to speak about some features of the kernel code.  I recall reading
> about the optimisations for 32 core systems some time ago, I'm sure there's
> something in that which is worth mentioning.  It's not an area that I've
> worked on, can anyone suggest something I should read about this?
>
> Any suggestions for other things I should mention?  Note that I'm not planning
> to mention anything about how to actually use SE Linux.  There are lots of web
> sites about that and I could offer a lecture on that topic at a different venue.
> The previous lecture in the series was about the design of the Enigma machines
> for WW2 cryptography.  The audience want to generally learn about maths and
> science not necessarily learn things that they can actually do.
>
> Also the format of the presentation is that it has to finish quickly when the
> pizza arrives.  So the items at the bottom of the list may get skipped.
>