I just want to get some clarification since news report on this subject is not clear. I understand the whole concepts of the trusted extensions. Where I am cloudy will this still be strong enough to be able to continue multi-level processing? Will this version still have the labels encoding file? and lastly when will it be available for government use?
Solaris Trusted Extensions is being evaluated against the same criteria as Trusted Solaris 8. In fact, the new Trusted Exensions architecture provides greater separation than its predecessor. Sun released a news flash today about the evaluation:
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-09/sunflash.20060913.3.xml
You can find out more by going to the project web page:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/tx/
or by reading the white paper:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/tx/TrustedExtensionsArch. pdf
