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Subject: RE: Trusted UNIX Firewalls
From: Neil <CARSON @ rmcs . cranfield . ac . uk>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:32:10 GMT
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com

> Some additional info re: the DG/UX trusted UNIX that I posted to the list in
> an earlier message. 

> Data General's trusted DG/UX C2 option is still around.  The B1 option has
> been superseded by DG/UX Information Security, which is currently undergoing
> B2 evaluation at the NCSC -- the only commercial O/S at that level.  If you add
> Cybershield from BDM (which provides encryption services, filtering in both
> directions, and many other features), you end up with a containment approach
> similar to a firewall, but with adequate security assurances built in that
> you don't need to dedicate a separate server as the firewall.  In fact, this
> is the
> approach that the Nat'l Security Agency will be deploying later this year.

Is not Trusted Solaris (from Logica?) another such product. I believe it has
such a security rating, but in my opinion is not up to much.

	Yours Aye,

	Neil

* Neil A Carson
* The Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham
* e-mail carson @
 rmcs .
 cranfield .
 ac .
 uk
* Address: Kitchener Mess, RMCS, Shrivenham SN6 8LA. Tel: (01793) 784428 (Home)


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