...opportunity to improve the security of an already robust OpenSolaris environment in a manner that may benefit government and commercial customers alike.
-- Jonathan Schwartz, Sun
NSA to Work with Sun, OpenSolaris Community to Enhance Security Based on Flux Advanced Security Kernel (Flask) Architecture
United States' National Security Agency (NSA) will be working with Sun and the OpenSolaris community to develop security enhancements to complement the security benefits of the mandatory access controls provided by the Solaris Trusted Extensions feature. The plan is to integrate an additional form of mandatory access control (MAC), based on the Flux Advanced Security Kernel (Flask) architecture.
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