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This is a short list (in no particular order) of some of the many tasks remaining to be done.
- Create an Administrator Guidance Document
- Create a User Guidance Document
- Create an Application Developer Guidance Document
- Port the kernel patches to the latest 2.2 kernel
- Port the kernel patches to the 2.4.0 kernel
- Port the utility patches to the latest versions of the base utilities
- Improve and simplify the policy configuration system
- Complete the general purpose policy configuration
- Perform functional and performance testing
- Implement mandatory controls for System V IPC (in progress)
- Implement mandatory controls suggested in the system call review in the kernel documentation
- Integrate IPSEC with network mandatory controls
- Implement mandatory controls for NFS
- Implement polyinstantiated directories
- Implement polyinstantiated ports
- Implement notifications for completed operations
- Implement policy change callbacks
- Integrate existing publicly available file cryptography with file mandatory controls
- Implement SID descriptors (reference-counted SIDs)
- Create or modify RPM spec files to include patches and include SRPMS on web site
It is expected that research in the above-identified areas of
technology will continue. However, this list of expected research shall
not be considered as a request for proposal or otherwise construed as a
commitment by the National Security Agency to anyone for the
procurement of equipment, services, or any obligation. The National
Security Agency reserves the right to not pursue research in any area
identified above or to discontinue, at any time, research in progress
in any of these areas.
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