Projects

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Kernel Security Projects

Access Control

  • 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...).
  • RSBAC: Rule Set Based Access Control, Linux kernel patch implementing a security framework.
  • FBAC-LSM: aims to provide easy to configure (functionality-based) application restrictions.

Integrity

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

  • System integrity in Linux.


Privileges

  • POSIX File Capabilities
    • Filesystem capabilities in Fedora 10 LWN article.


Networking

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


Storage

  • Labeled NFS, a project to add MAC labeling support to the NFSv4 protocol.


Cryptography

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