From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from goalie.tycho.ncsc.mil (goalie [144.51.242.250]) by tarius.tycho.ncsc.mil (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t942ZtEa019887 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2015 22:35:55 -0400 Subject: Re: Computer Science and SE Linux To: Russell Coker References: <201510032038.27911.russell@coker.com.au> Cc: "selinux@tycho.nsa.gov" , Thomas Rozenbroek From: Thomas Rozenbroek Message-ID: <56109081.1040007@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 22:35:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201510032038.27911.russell@coker.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed List-Id: "Security-Enhanced Linux \(SELinux\) mailing list" List-Post: List-Help: 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 ----- 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. >