From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Out of tree module using LSM
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 22:56:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071202215634.GB2438@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23463.1196629795@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Sun 2007-12-02 16:09:55, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:22:40 +0100, Pavel Machek said:
> > Well, if you only want to detect viruses _sometimes_, you can just
> > LD_PRELOAD your scanner.
>
> And for some use cases, that probably *is* the best answer..
I'd say so.
> > I guess the A/V people should describe what they are trying to do, as
> > in
> >
> > "forbidden sequences of bits should never hit disk" or "forbidden
> > sequences of bits should be never read from disk" or something...
>
> We probably want to hear related usages as well - what *besides* A/V would be
> interested? Indexing services?
Well... I'd really like to know what A/V people are trying to do.
Indexing services are really different, and doable with recursive
m-time Jan is preparing...
> Software that tries to limit the
> distribution
> of sensitive info off the machine - for instance, imagine a rule that said
> "Data that comes from a file that contains SSNs or the string 'Corporate
> Secret' data isn't allowed to leave the computer" and a Perl-like 'taint'
> concept. I'm not saying its *doable*, but it's certainly a goal that somebody
> would like to achieve...
That sounds like a task for SELinux, no?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-02 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-28 12:42 Out of tree module using LSM Tvrtko A. Ursulin
2007-11-28 14:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-28 16:38 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-11-28 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-28 17:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-28 18:22 ` tvrtko.ursulin
2007-11-28 19:50 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-29 16:12 ` tvrtko.ursulin
2007-11-29 0:12 ` James Morris
2007-11-29 16:27 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-29 16:51 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 16:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-29 16:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-29 0:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-29 1:45 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-11-28 18:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-11-28 18:30 ` Al Viro
2007-11-29 0:38 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 0:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-29 1:07 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 16:36 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-29 16:47 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 16:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-29 16:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-29 17:27 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-29 22:58 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-08 10:50 ` Pavel Machek
2007-11-29 17:03 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 17:35 ` Ray Lee
2007-11-29 17:45 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 18:03 ` Ray Lee
2007-11-29 18:19 ` Justin Banks
2007-11-29 18:38 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-29 17:51 ` Al Viro
2007-11-29 17:05 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-29 17:14 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 16:26 ` tvrtko.ursulin
2007-11-29 17:36 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-29 18:40 ` Ray Lee
2007-11-29 18:56 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-29 19:11 ` Ray Lee
2007-11-29 19:45 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-29 20:56 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-11-29 22:08 ` Al Viro
2007-11-30 0:50 ` James Morris
2007-11-29 23:31 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-29 21:45 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-29 22:12 ` Justin Banks
2007-11-30 1:48 ` Al Viro
2007-11-30 15:37 ` Justin Banks
2007-11-29 23:34 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-30 6:20 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-11-30 13:30 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-29 21:09 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-28 19:20 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-28 19:52 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-28 20:05 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-11-29 16:39 ` tvrtko.ursulin
2007-12-01 8:43 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-02 19:44 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-12-02 20:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-02 20:06 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-02 20:22 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-02 21:09 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-12-02 21:56 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-12-02 23:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-02 23:23 ` Pavel Machek
2007-11-29 0:58 ` Greg KH
2007-11-30 20:52 Crispin Cowan
2007-11-30 21:36 ` James Morris
2007-11-30 23:52 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-12-01 0:05 ` James Morris
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2007-12-03 22:45 ` Bodo Eggert
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