The Linux Kernel Might Use FreeBSD's Capsicum Security Framework

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The Linux Kernel Might Use FreeBSD's Capsicum Security Framework

07-07-2014, 09:10 AM

Phoronix: The Linux Kernel Might Use FreeBSD's Capsicum Security Framework

A Linux kernel developer is working on porting FreeBSD's CAPSICUM security framework over to the Linux kernel...

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07-07-2014, 11:49 AM

Originally posted by phoronix View Post

A Linux kernel developer is working on porting FreeBSD's CAPSICUM security framework over to the Linux kernel...

Capsicum was discussed recently on LWN.net, I think a Google developer had ported it a while back, been interest due to an FPGA hardware implementation of idea. Articles http://lwn.net/Articles/482858/ and recent one http://lwn.net/Articles/604015/ which is subscriber only for a few days more.
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