Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757485AbXJCFjL (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 01:39:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751858AbXJCFi6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 01:38:58 -0400 Received: from mail8.dotsterhost.com ([66.11.233.1]:45033 "HELO mail8.dotsterhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751851AbXJCFi5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 01:38:57 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:38:56 EDT Message-ID: <4703295E.8010608@crispincowan.com> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:32:14 -0700 From: Crispin Cowan Organization: Crispin's Labs User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Bill Davidsen , Stephen Smalley , James Morris , Andrew Morton , casey@schaufler-ca.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel References: <46FEEBD4.5050401@schaufler-ca.com> <20070930011618.ccb8351b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1191253239.7672.76.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <4702B1D5.5050502@tmr.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 19 Linus Torvalds wrote: > Security, on the other hand, very much does depend on the circumstances > and the wishes of the users (or policy-makers). And if we had one module > that everybody would be happy with, I'd not make it pluggable either. But > as it is, we _know_ that's not the case. > And you claim you are not a security expert :-) Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://crispincowan.com/~crispin/ Itanium. Vista. GPLv3. Complexity at work - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/