[email protected] (Timothy Sipples1) writes:
> Almost everyone here would. These are mainframes, with PR/SM and LPARs
> proven to Common Criteria EAL5+ certification standards. Regardless of the
> operating system(s) running in particular LPARs.

sometimes EAL certifications can be misleading. I was at briefing that
said of 64 or so "identical" EAL certifications ... 60 had unpublished
deviations.

I designed a "secure" chip that I finally got EAL4+ certification
... but there were similar chips with EAL6+ certifications. I claimed
that my chip was more secure than any of the EAL6+ certified chips.  The
main difference was my evaluation was with crypto and all applications
ready to be handed to customers. The EAL6+ certified chips didn't have
any software/applications ... so the certification wasn't on actual
real-world operation ... but just some of its physical characters (joke
was it is possible to do have a protection profile for physical
dimensions and do EAL6+ evaluation on physical dimensions).

I had originally planned for at least EAL5+ certification ... but the
on-chip crypto I had, NIST had recently pulled the evaluation criteria
for the crypto certification higher than EAL4+ ... so evaluation was
limited to EAL4+ certification.

recent posts (i86) capability system design for EAL7+ evaluation
... descendent of GNOSIS operating system done for 370 by one of the
(370) online virtual machine based service bureaus.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#43 Virtual address Memory Protection Unit
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#59 Operating System, what is it?

nearly anybody can write a protection profile that is used for
evaluation. there are some recent push to bring all protection profiles
under control of ***.

I've been admonished a few times by *** for critizing the protection
profile infrastructure compared to orange book.

past posts in this thread:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#56 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off 
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#57 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off 
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#59 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off 
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#70 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off 
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#73 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer 
history
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#81 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off 
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#87 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off 
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#88 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off 
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#90 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off 
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#100 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off 
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#2 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off 
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#3 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off 
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#4 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off 
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#5 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off 
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#6 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off 
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