National Security Agency to work with Sun to improve Solaris

Sun Microsystems has announced that they are now going to work with U.S. National Security Agency to develop security mechanisms for OpenSolaris.

The two groups would now work on the OpenSolaris project to integrate an additional form of mandatory access control.

The networking company added that this collaboration is aimed at enhancing the mandatory access controls already provided by Solaris Trusted Extensions.

Any addition to the code of the operating system would be open for verification by the OpenSolaris community.

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