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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] ACM: adding C-support for policy translation and lab

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] ACM: adding C-support for policy translation and labeling support for domains
From: Reiner Sailer <sailer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:02:33 -0400
Cc: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>, Ray Valdez <rvaldez@xxxxxxxxxx>, Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, xense-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sensitivity:

This patch:

* adds a C-based security policy translation tool to Xen (secpol_xml2bin) and removes the current Java
security policy translator (Java dependencies).  The C-based tool integrates into the Xen source tree build
and install (using gnome libxml2 for XML parsing). See install.txt.

* introduces security labels and related tools. Users can now use semantic-rich label names to put security-tags
on domains. See example.txt, policy.txt.

* moves the security configuration (currently ACM_USE_SECURITY_POLICY) from xen/Rules.mk
into a separate top-level Security.mk file  (it is needed by the tools/security and xen/acm).

Both xen/acm and tools/security are built during the Xen build process only if ACM_USE_SECURITY_POLICY
is not ACM_NULL_POLICY (which is the default setting).

Comments welcome!

Note: We are currently preparing a patch that introduces a new ACM command (getssid) to retrieve the security types
of a running domain. This command is enables domain-internal enforcement functions based on the ACM security policy.

Thanks
Reiner

Signed-off-by Reiner Sailer <sailer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off by Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off by Ray Valdez <rvaldez@xxxxxxxxxx>

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