Web site: www.trustedbsd.org
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Category: Specialist, Security
Desktop environment: CLI
Architecture: x86_64
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TrustedBSD – the project provides a set of security extensions for the FreeBSD operating system. The project was started by Robert Watson with the goal of implementing the concepts of the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation and the Orange Book. This project is under constant development, and many of its contributions have been integrated into the FreeBSD operating system.
The TrustedBSD Project is an open source community developing advanced security features for the open source FreeBSD operating system. Started in April 2000, the project developed support for extended attributes, access control lists (ACLs), UFS2, OpenPAM, security event auditing, OpenBSM, a flexible kernel access control framework, mandatory access control, and the GEOM storage layer. The results of this work may be found not just in FreeBSD, but also NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, and Apple’s Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. Today, the project continues to maintain and enhance these mature features in FreeBSD.
The TrustedBSD Project originally targeted trusted operating system functionality required by the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC). Work has gone significantly further, including research and development into operating system security extensibility, and work on local and distributed file systems as required to meet security goals.
Many components of the TrustedBSD project are currently included in both the FreeBSD operating system and other software products based on it. For example, OpenPAM and UFS2 were adopted by NetBSD. Furthermore, the TrustedBSD MAC Framework was adopted by Apple for Mac OS X and iOS operating systems.
Most of the TrustedBSD development work was sponsored by DARPA.
