Re: [saag] Common labeled security (comment on CALIPSO, labeled NFSv4)

"Santosh Chokhani" <SChokhani@cygnacom.com> Fri, 03 April 2009 18:10 UTC

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From: Santosh Chokhani <SChokhani@cygnacom.com>
To: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [saag] Common labeled security (comment on CALIPSO, labeled NFSv4)
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I do not know what the ISO spec has in it and how it relates to SPIF
work we did. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Williams [mailto:Nicolas.Williams@sun.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 1:37 PM
> To: Santosh Chokhani
> Cc: saag@ietf.org; labeled-nfs@linux-nfs.org; 
> nfs-discuss@opensolaris.org; nfsv4@ietf.org; selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
> Subject: Re: [saag] Common labeled security (comment on 
> CALIPSO, labeled NFSv4)
> 
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 01:34:23PM -0400, Santosh Chokhani wrote:
> > The work I am mentioning was done for NSA and can be 
> released if NSA 
> > is ok with it.
> > 
> > I suspect NSA will be ok with it. 
> 
> Great!
> 
> But I was referring to the ISO15816 spec -- that does not 
> belong to the NSA, though the NSA might be able to pull 
> strings to make it a free spec.  It took so long to make the 
> ASN.1 specs free that I wouldn't hold my breath.  I may be 
> better for the IETF to start over on a replacement for SPIF.
> 
> Nico
> -- 
>