Final year project ideas

[Zbynek Houska]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Dominick Grift <domg472 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 07:25:05PM +0100, Zbynek Houska wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I'm about to embark on a SELinux related final year project for BSc
> (Hons)
> > in IT this semester. My goal is to learn SELinux well, compare to other
> > (Linux) security projects, demystify it / demonstrate its pros and
> cons...
> > I would like to do a thorough research on exploit / attack mitigation
> with
> > SELinux as per Tresys website (http://www.tresys.com/innovation.php) and
> > write a few (new) policies for software of my choice.  I intend to use
> > honeypots running Fedora 11 as my base system. However, I'm not sure if
> > college class B network will produce conclusive results.
> >
> > Thus, I would appreciate support, guidance and comments from (seasoned)
> > SELinux gurus, developers and practitioners on this list in order to
> point
> > me in the right direction when it comes to sourcing literature, white
> > papers, research work other people might already have conducted and
> > overcoming pitfalls related to such testing environments.
>
> Hello,
>
Hi Dominick,

>
> Here is a list with links to SELinux resources.
> http://selinuxproject.org/page/User_Resources
>
> You have already found the right mailing lists (except Tresys refpolicy
> list). I Recommend that you also bookmark and study the list Archives:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-selinux-list/
> http://oss.tresys.com/pipermail/refpolicy/
> http://marc.info/?l=selinux&r=1&w=2


Oh, sure I always try to go through archives.

>
>
> Also have a look at this presentation:
> http://people.redhat.com/dwalsh/SELinux/Presentations/ManageRHEL5.pdf
>
> This book:
> http://www.selinuxbyexample.com/
>
> These:
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-user-guide/f11/en-US/
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-managing-confined-services-guide/en-US/F11/html/
>
> And this:
> http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/


Thanks a lot for all links you have put up together for me. I believe I
already have some of them, if not all of them. I was wondering if there is
some academic research into SELinux (other than Flux / Flask) as other
resources / references might be deemed as unsubstantiated.

>
>
> hth
>

Thanks,

Zbynek

>
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Zbynek
>
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