| French ministry to fund highly secure Linux project |
Sep. 23, 2004
The French Ministry of Defense has contracted with Paris-based Mandrakesoft and a consortium of French-based technology firms on a three-year contract to improve Linux security. The project expects to gain Common Criteria certification of Linux to meet Evaluation Assurance Level 5 (EAL5), and Mandrake says it will release the work under an open source license on completion.
Joining Mandrakesoft in the effort are Bertin Technologies, Surlog, Jaluna, and Oppida. The companies, which represent security and operating system industry expertise, say they envision that hardware partitioning and virtualization technology will play a key role in designing future open operating system security solutions.
CC-EAL5 guarantees an outstanding security level for an operating system, and satisfies major security requirements in both commercial and defense/government applications. The first version of the Common Criteria was published in 1998, to be used as a basis for security evaluations of IT products. The Common Criteria standard was originally developed as a collaborative effort among Canada, France, Germany, The Netherlands, The UK, and US, with the goal of a Recognition Arrangement (CC-RA). Evaluation levels range from EAL 1 through 7.
The French ministry contract is reportly valued at 7 million euros, or approximately US $8.7 million.
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