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Subject: Re: Is any O.S. w/IP enabled C2 certified?
From: chk @ psa . pencom . com (Christian Kuhtz)
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 10:53:47 -0500 (CDT)
To: peter @ baileynm . com (Peter da Silva)
Cc: mattias . lindstrom @ ihc . se, firewalls-digest @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <9608051415 . AA13569 @ sonic . nmti . com . nmti . com> from "Peter da Silva" at Aug 5, 96 09:15:15 am

> 
> > To all Windows NT, UNIX and other NOS fan(atic)s, including myself :-),
> > If you put a box on a network, internet or intranet or just a plain net, you
> > will not be able to meet the C2 certification standards. 
> 
> That is not true. Sorry. All this means is that Microsoft has not had an
> NT installation certified with networking enabled. Given the problems with
> NT networking, I'm not surprised they decided not to go for the gold ring.

Guys, C2 according to the orange book doesn't say jack about networking.
Alright?  Go read it, and lets burn this silly discussion .

In other words, it is completely *irrelevant* whether or not you have a 
network.  Besides the military's idea of a secured network is...
an argon filled pipe in a tripple faraday cage... etc etc.. So, if that's
really what you want to talk about, read the right books and *not* the
orange book which is about host security only.

Chris

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