Projects

Kernel Security Projects

Access Control

• Linux Security Modules (LSM), the API for access control frameworks.

• AppArmor, a pathname-based access control system.

• Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux), a flexible and fine-grained MAC framework.

• SMACK, the Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel for Linux.

• TOMOYO.

Integrity

This is a rapidly developing area, see the following LWN article for an overview:

• System integrity in Linux.

Networking

There are several separately maintained projects relating to network security, including:

• Netfilter packet filtering.

• Labeled Networking, including NetLabel, CIPSO, Labeled IPsec and SECMARK, see Paul Moore's blog.

Storage

• Labeled NFS, a project to add MAC labeling support to the NFSv4 protocol.

Anti-Malware

There are several related works-in-progress in this area:

• fsnotify

• TALPA

Crypto

The cryptographic subsystem is maintained separately by Herbert Xu, refer to the mailing list.