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From: "James W. Hoeft" <Jim@MagitekLtd.com>
To: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: LC Bruzenak <lenny@MagitekLtd.com>, Linux Audit <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: user message limits
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:57:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49815353.7080105@MagitekLtd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4980FA1F.6090600@schaufler-ca.com>

The requirement to include the entire cut buffer was only for high to 
low (downgrade) transfers (which are only allowed for text), and was a 
"derived" requirement, in that we had to include the text in the audit 
logs in order to get approval to provide that capability.

Jim

Casey Schaufler wrote:
> LC Bruzenak wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 15:37 -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> LC Bruzenak wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>>> ... 
>>>>>         
>>>>>           
>>>   
>>>
>>> That would be a most peculiar requirement. Are "they" requiring
>>> that you audit the data sent with cross-level send(), read()
>>> and write() as well?
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> Casey, 
>>
>> This is similar to the HP CMW trusted copy/paste capability (not
>> necessarily cut). I assume Trusted Irix had something similar?
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Actually, the Trix B1 evaluation had a single level window system
> and the CC evaluated system was server only.
>
> The notion of auditing the data passed in addition to the subject
> and object information has got to be a CMW thing. In principle
> moving data from a Secret window to a TS window is no different
> from moving it from a Secret file to a TS file, and you would
> never audit that data.
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-29  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-28  0:01 user message limits LC Bruzenak
2009-01-28 15:30 ` LC Bruzenak
2009-01-28 17:15 ` Steve Grubb
2009-01-28 17:44   ` LC Bruzenak
2009-01-28 20:14     ` Steve Grubb
2009-01-28 20:30       ` LC Bruzenak
2009-01-28 21:04         ` LC Bruzenak
2009-01-28 23:37         ` Casey Schaufler
2009-01-28 23:52           ` LC Bruzenak
2009-01-29  0:36             ` Casey Schaufler
2009-01-29  6:57               ` James W. Hoeft [this message]
2009-01-30  4:49                 ` Casey Schaufler
2013-09-17 14:48     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2013-09-17 18:10       ` Steve Grubb
2013-09-18  2:25         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2013-09-18 14:25           ` Steve Grubb
2013-09-18 15:10             ` spurious \n in session id helper [was: Re: user message limits] Richard Guy Briggs
2009-06-08 22:08   ` user message limits LC Bruzenak

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