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- From: bsuggs@hac2arpa.hac.com (Brian Suggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Keywords: C2 SECURITY
- Message-ID: <24132@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:05:46 GMT
- Sender: news@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM
- Reply-To: bsuggs@hac2arpa.hac.com
- Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co.
- Lines: 22
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- Adam W. Feigin (feigin@iis.ethz.ch) writes:
- > [At Sun's new product announcement a couple of weeks ago:]
- > Ah yes, and then we had Ed Zander touting Solaris for his 4 minutes.
- > Great speil Ed, but you (and your company) are not very good liars.
- > There he was, claiming yet again that that Solaris has C2 security (he
- > didn't say C2 security features, he said C2 security). If I was a
- > litigating type, We'd be seeing a lot of each other in court. Sun has
- > NEVER received C2 certification from NCSC/NSA. What he said was an
- > outright lie (at least he was smiling when he said it, like a good
- > used-car salesman).
-
- I attended that product announcement and picked up, among other things, a flyer
- titled something like "Introducing Solaris 2.1". In that flyer, there was
- brief mention of a product called "Sun SECURE" (I think. This is from memory.)
- It claimed to be bona fide, government recognized C2 security, not just the
- "with C2 features" available in previous SunOS releases.
-
- While I don't know any more than what I read in that flyer, I would at least check
- it out before I start calling people liars.
-
- -Brian Suggs
- bsuggs@hac2arpa.hac.com
-