20 years of NSA Security Enhanced Linux, a Retrospective
Kia Ora Theatre | Sat 15 Jan 1:30 p.m.–2:15 p.m.
Presented by
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Russell Coker
@etbe
https://etbe.coker.com.au/
Russell is mostly known for working on NSA Security Enhanced Linux. But he has also spent a lot of time experimenting with new filesystems and writing mail server benchmarks. He has been a Debian developer for 20 years and is mostly known for maintaining SE Linux packages in Debian.
Russell Coker
@etbe
https://etbe.coker.com.au/
Abstract
NSA Security Enhanced Linux (SE Linux) first became known to the Linux community at Ottawa Linux Symposium 2001. I planned to spend a few weeks working on it but ended up spending 20 years, and the work continues.
I will describe how my skills as a Linux programmer developed while SE Linux improved, how things could have been done better in retrospect, the ways that my initial plans didn't match reality, and how a few weeks changed to 20 years.
This talk is aimed at an audience of beginner to intermediate level. I hope that someone at an early stage of their Linux career will watch this and feel inspired to get in at the start of a major project and develop their skills as the project progresses. But I think that experts will find it interesting.
NSA Security Enhanced Linux (SE Linux) first became known to the Linux community at Ottawa Linux Symposium 2001. I planned to spend a few weeks working on it but ended up spending 20 years, and the work continues. I will describe how my skills as a Linux programmer developed while SE Linux improved, how things could have been done better in retrospect, the ways that my initial plans didn't match reality, and how a few weeks changed to 20 years. This talk is aimed at an audience of beginner to intermediate level. I hope that someone at an early stage of their Linux career will watch this and feel inspired to get in at the start of a major project and develop their skills as the project progresses. But I think that experts will find it interesting.