Summary of Informal SELinux Meeting on May 6, 2004

[Stephen Smalley]

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 07:42, Russell Coker wrote:
> That use of the word "trustworthy" seems reasonable.  But as long as the word 
> "trusted" is used in it's current manner in terms of computer security there 
> will be confusion.
> 
> Any suggestions of a term we can use as a synonym for the current use of 
> "trusted" to reduce confusion?

We typically refer to such applications as userspace policy enforcers or
userspace object managers (terminology from the Flask architecture),
reflecting the fact that they are enforcing policy over their own
abstractions/objects.

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency