From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 18:22:02 -0700 (PDT)
To: Jim Tatz <jtatz@chemistry.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: WinNT C2?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.93.980602200540.28995A-100000@chemistry.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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<Pine.GSO.3.93.980602200540.28995A-100000@chemistry.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
on 06/02/98 
   at 08:14 PM, Jim Tatz <jtatz@chemistry.ohio-state.edu> said:

>In addition to the converstaion, MS says:
>Microsoft has opted not to include certain components of Windows NT in
>the evaluation process, not because they would not pass the evaluation,
>but to save time by reducing the load on the NSA. Additionally, the
>MS-DOS/Windows on Windows (WOW) system may be treated as a Win32
>application and would therefore not need to be evaluated as part of the
>Trusted Computer Base (TCB). Networking on NT may not have to go through
>the "Red Book," or "Trusted Network Interpretation." It may be enough to
>consider networking to be another subsystem, and therefore only the
>Orange Book would apply. New or modified components and other hardware
>platforms can go through a "RAMP" process to be included in the
>evaluation at a later time. 


Good God what kind of double talk is this? It doesn't need Red Book eval.
and networking can be treated as a sub-system?!? Well I guess the guys
down at NSA just wrote the Red Book (which is significantly larger than
the Orange Book) because they were board.

I would not trust Micky$lop to tell me that the sky was blue and water was
wet let alone trust them to provide *any* form of security product.

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