Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches
Date
Msg-id 200809262211.m8QMBES05296@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches  (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>)
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KaiGai Kohei wrote:
> > SE-PostgreSQL needs to be good enough for the NSA, but row-level
> > security in general does not.
> 
> BTW, it seems to me someone misunderstand I works as an agent of NSA.
> Is it a humor, itn't it? I've paid my effort to improve the security
> of open source software, not for overseas intelligence agency.

The comment was not directed at you.  The comment was that SE-Linux was
perhaps designed by the NSA, so an implementation matching SE-Linux will
be good enough for the NSA.  The comment goes on to say that we might
want something better or more consistent than the NSA requirements.

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