Difference between revisions of "Projects"

Revision as of 16:37, 16 April 2012

Linux Security Modules (LSM), the API for access control frameworks
AppArmor, a pathname-based access control system
Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux), a flexible and fine-grained MAC framework
Smack, the Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel for Linux
TOMOYO, another pathname-based access control system (LiveCD available)
grsecurity, extensive security enhancement patch for the Linux kernel (RBAC, chroot hardening, auditing, stack/heap protection randomization and more...)
Rule Set Based Access Control (RSBAC), Linux kernel patch implementing a security framework
FBAC-LSM aims to provide easy to configure (functionality-based) application restrictions
[1] adds restrictions to ptrace, providing a programmatic way to declare relationships between processes

This is a rapidly developing area, see the following LWN article for an overview:

There are several separately maintained projects relating to network security, including:

Netfilter packet filtering
Labeled Networking, including NetLabel, CIPSO, Labeled IPsec and SECMARK, see Paul Moore's blog
NuFW authenticating firewall based on Netfilter

Labeled NFS, a project to add MAC labeling support to the NFSv4 protocol
dm-verity, a device mapper target for efficient, integrity-assured block devices

The cryptographic subsystem is maintained separately by Herbert Xu, refer to the mailing list.

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 * [http://www.rsbac.org/why Rule Set Based Access Control (RSBAC)], Linux kernel patch implementing a security framework
 * [http://schreuders.org/FBAC-LSM FBAC-LSM] aims to provide easy to configure (functionality-based) application restrictions
+* [http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/security/Yama.txt;hb=HEAD|Yama] adds restrictions to ptrace, providing a programmatic way to declare relationships between processes
 === Integrity ===