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The Open Road: "In one of the biggest testaments yet of open source's security credentials, and of its ability to deliver security at lower cost, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has turned to open source to create part of the Tokeneer System."

An anonymous reader writes to mention that the Tokeneer research project has been released to the open source community by the US National Security Agency.

Architecture created by the National Security Agency and expanded with help from the open-source community will save the Defense Department and intelligence agencies millions in hardware costs.

You know SELinux is built to be virtually attack-proof, but do you know how the National Security Agency (NSA) accomplish it?

Take a closer look at the SELinux kernel architecture, why this is important, and what makes SELinux one of the most secure implementations of Linux available.

Linux security experts are reporting a growing list of real-world security situations in which the US National Security Agency's SELinux security framework contains the damage resulting from a flaw in other software.

These so-called "mitigations" are showing that a Linux feature that began as an esoteric security measure is starting to prove its...

Government Computer News: "The National Security Agency has released a new version of Security Enhanced Linux..."

Linux security experts are reporting a growing list of real-world security situations in which the US National Security Agency's SELinux security framework contains the damage resulting from a flaw in other software.

Fedora introduced SELinux in Fedora Core 2 and enables it by default from Fedora Core 3 innovating and leading the way as usual.