Fedora Core 2 Test 2 - delayed

[Rik van Riel]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

> How well scrutinized is this NSA code actually? Everybody can see they
> won't slip in an obvious backdoor, but how about nasty little overflows,
> tucked away deep inside the code, for which they already have exploits
> in their drawer?

I think your tinfoil hat has a government back-door ;)

But seriously, the selinux code that's in the kernel now
looks completely differently from the original code a few
years ago.  Every bit of the code has been looked at by
many people and changed a number of times until it was
acceptable to the upstream kernel developers.

Also, because selinux was (partially) written by the NSA
I expect the code to be scrutinised more than any other
code in the kernel...

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan