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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walt Farrell) writes: > But personally, I would not call it an operating system (I would call it a > hypervisor) nor would I claim it as EAL6+. above EAL4 gets kind of funny. I tried to get EAL5 for AADS chip ... one of the things I was doing was putting everything in silicon; all part of chip manufacturing, including EC/DSA (NIST digital signature standard). Since everything was part of the silicon ... then it required to be included in the evaluation. Problem was that there wasn't a specification for EC/DSA that could be used as part of an EAL5 evaluation (EAL4 didn't require demonstration that outputs of EC/DSA met some specification, there had been a draft specification ... but it had been withdrawn). Other vendors were getting EAL5 evaluation on similar chips ... except they were bare bones chip ... where all the applications were done in software and loaded into the chip after manufacturing. Their evaluation was for the manufactured chip (what came from the foundary) ... not final delivered product to end-user. -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar70 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
