On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:41:31AM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html > > Stenbit said the debate is academic and that what matters is how secure a given > piece of software is. To that end, the Defense Department is now prohibited from > purchasing any software that has not undergone security testing by the NSA. > Stenbit said he is unaware of any open-source software that has been tested. > > Anyone know of any commerical Microsoft products that have been tested by the > NSA and passed? Windows NT 3.51 has a Cx certification on certain Compaq hardware, without floppy and not connected to the network - I am not kidding. They didn't dare submit NT 4.0 or connect it to the network... That is the only reason they are getting contracts into the DoD. florin PS: Don't forget that sorry incident when a destroyer was dead in the water for a couple of hours when the control computers blue-screened. -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020523/242ff02b/attachment.pgp