Re: [ANNOUNCE] Release Digsig 1.5: kernel module for run-timeauthentication of binaries

From: Stephen Smalley
Date: Fri Apr 21 2006 - 12:08:30 EST


On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 09:56 +0000, Makan Pourzandi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Digsig development team would like to announce the release 1.5 of digsig.
>
> This kernel module helps system administrators control Executable and
> Linkable Format (ELF) binary execution and library loading based on
> the presence of a valid digital signature. The main functionality is
> to help system administrators distinguish applications he/she trusts
> (and therefore signs) from viruses, worms (and other nuisances). It is
> based on the Linux Security Module hooks.
>
> The code is GPL and available from:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/disec/, download digsig-1.5. For
> more documentation, please refer to disec.sourcefrge.net.
>
> We hope that it'll be useful to you.
>
> All bug reports and feature requests or general feedback are welcome
> (please CC me and disec-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in your answer or
> feedback to the mailing list).

That URL doesn't seem to be working at present.
You should submit your security module for mainline; otherwise, LSM
might be removed. See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-security-module&m=114530167302454&w=2

Also discussed on lwn.net.

--
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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