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DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition - Volume I
Design and Implementation of the TrustedBSD MAC Framework
Washington, DC
April 22-April 24
ISBN: 0-7695-1897-4
Robert Watson, Network Associates Laboratories
Brian Feldman, Network Associates Laboratories
Adam Migus, Network Associates Laboratories
Chris Vance, Network Associates Laboratories
Developing access control extensions for operating systems is an expensive and time-consuming task. Mechanisms available for access control extension lag behind industry standard extension solutions for file systems, process schedulers, and device drivers, and suffer from a number of serious flaws in modern multi-processor, multi-threaded kernels. In this paper, we explore the limitations of current technologies for security extension. We describe the TrustedBSD MAC Framework, a flexible and modular environment for operating system access control extensions on the open source FreeBSD platform. The TrustedBSD MAC Framework permits extensions to be introduced at compile-time, boot-time, or at run-time, and provides a number of services to support dynamically introduced policies, including policy-agnostic object labeling services and application interfaces. We discuss the design and implementation of the framework, as well as the an implementation of a fixed-label Biba integrity policy based on the framework.
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Robert Watson, Brian Feldman, Adam Migus, Chris Vance, "Design and Implementation of the TrustedBSD MAC Framework," discex, vol. 1, pp.38, DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition - Volume I, 2003
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