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Government
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Security Information
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Fact Sheet: National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Policy (NSTISSP) No. 11
National Policy Governing the Acquisition of Information Assurance (IA) and IA-Enabled Information
Technology (IT) Products is issued by the National Security
Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee (NSTISSC).
NIST (pdf)
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Open Source Software in the Department of Defense:
This memorandum reiterates current policy and provides additional
guidance on the acquisition, use and development of OSS within DoD.
The May 28, 2003 memo can be downloaded here.
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IBM/Suse EAL3 Certification:
IBM announced EAL3 Common Criteria Certification for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 8.
POC: Dr. Doc Shankar, 512-838-8918, dshankar@us.ibm.com
The public documentation is available here.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 "In Evaluation" for Common Criteria EAL2:
The Common Criteria Scheme enables consumers to obtain an impartial assessment of an IT product by an independent lab.
This impartial assessment, or security evaluation, includes an analysis of the IT product and the testing of the product
for conformance to a set of security requirements.
Security standards play a critical role in today's computing architecture and Red Hat has taken an important step by
submitting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for Common Criteria evaluation at assurance level EAL 2.
RedHat, HTML.
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FIPS 140-2 Certification for OpenSSL
OpenSSL is achieving FIPS 140-2 certification.
NIST/FIPS 140-2 Certification for OpenSSL Reference
Open Source Software Institute (pdf)
NIST FIPS 140-2 Pre-Validation List
NIST (pdf) |
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Information Assurance Ramifications of Using OpenSSL in the Department of Defense Computing Environment:
This work will provide an overview of the new regulations that impact the use of an open-source cryptographic software library in
the Department of Defense. This will be followed by a discussion of the OpenSSL cryptographic toolset functions as well as its
licenses and the impact of what using such a cryptographic library could be for the Department of Defense.
Joel Kirch, SANS Institute (pdf) |
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Business
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The Future of Open Source in Government:
A position paper from gOSapps detailing the process that the government has gone through relating to the adoption of Open Source Software.
Tom Walker, gOSapps (pdf) |
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Is There a Disruptive Technology In Your Future?:
Count on it. Although the problem is nobody really knows what a disruptive technology might be until it, well, begins to disrupt.
National laboratories, research institutions and corporations are nevertheless in the throes of innovation.
Joab Jackson, TechComm (pdf) |
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Open Source Software: Perspectives for Development:
The report intends to assist decision makers, globally, in better
understanding Open Source software when assessing this technology
option. Presented are initiatives by governments around the world, a
selection of private sector uses of Open Source, support by commercial
technology providers, a set of case studies in developing countries,
along with a brief status of the legal landscape.
The Dravis Group: Open Source Software: Perspectives for Development (pdf) |
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Why Open Source Software / Free
Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!:
This paper provides quantitative data that, in many
cases, using open source software / free software
is a reasonable or even superior approach to using
their proprietary competition according to various
measures. This paper examines market share, reliability,
performance, scalability, security, and total cost
of ownership.
http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html
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Open Software & Open Standards
in South Africa: A Critical Issue for Addressing
the Digital Divide -
A January 2002 report by
the National Advisory Council on Innovation about
the use of open source software.
http://www.naci.org.za/docs/opensource.html
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Free Software / Open Source:Information
Society Opportunities for Europe?:
"Open
source software is becoming the most interesting
`new' phenomenon of the entire information technology
landscape, generating a level of interest similar
to that of the first moments of the Internet. However,
as we will show in this document, the open source
software phenomenon is not historically new, although
in recent years it has reached a critical mass,
which has allowed it to enter the mainstream software
market. " April 2000 report by Working group
on Libre Software1. The working group on Libre Software
was created at the initiative of the Information
Society Directorate General of the European Commission.
http://eu.conecta.it/paper/
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Evolution in Open Source Software:A
Case Study:
A report by Michael W. Godfrey and
Qiang Tu, Software Architecture Group (SWAG), Department
of Computer Science, University of Waterloo.
http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~migod/papers/icsm00.pdf
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The Quality of Linux: A Good Business
Decision: A White Paper by Kevin Cullis.
"This article will view Linux and the Open
Source development model from a few different quality
perspectives and show how that model, as a whole,
provides increasing quality potential over time
compared to closed or proprietary software."
http://www.kaivo.org/Kaivo/Ampari/T_kolme/?page=C_qualityofLinux
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Is Linux Really More Secure Than
Windows? :
An October 11, 2002 article by Masha
Zager posted on the NewsFactor Network that
compares Widows and Linux on issues reated to security.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19649.html
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Best Practices for Linux in Higher
Education, by Luca Filiposzzi, University of British
Columbia
This is a pdf slide presentation describing
Linux, its distributions, advantages and disadvantages
of use.
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~lucaf/it4bc.pdf
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Linux in Higher Education: Open
Source, Open Minds, Social Justice
Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2000 by Bryan Pfaffenberger
Positions paper: Colleges and universities should
move to adopt Linux as an international standard
for computing in higher education.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5071 |
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The Case for Linux in Universities:
A hyperlinked white paper by Dan Kegel, senior
engineer at Ixia Communication, written in HTML
format making a case for the use of Open Source
Solutions in Universities.
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SCHOOLFORGE
Schoolforge's mission is to unify independent
organizations that advocate, use, and develop open
resources for primary and secondary education.
http://www.schoolforge.net/
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Applications
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StarOffice Calc v. MS Excel:Improving
the Usability of an Open Source Spreadsheet Application
This study has the following objectives:
· To determine which parts of StarOffice
Calc’s interface support or hinder the activities
of current Excel users. · To compare user
satisfaction ratings for the two systems. ·
To develop design suggestions for the StarOffice
Calc development team based on quantitative and
qualitative data.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is271/f01/projects/StarCalc/Final_Report.pdf |
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The Open Science Project: Open
Source software for scientific research.
Listings of open source applications applicable
to science and mathematics hyperlinked to their
origins.
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Open Source Solutions
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Open Source Solutions: Office Suite Packages
Open Source software is software that is freely available and freely
distributable for anyone to use.
As an example of an Open Source Office Suite solution, OSSI has provided
download links to several free, open source applications: OpenOffice
(Office Suite), Mozilla (web browser), and Thunderbird (email client).
Each of these applications will run under Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
and Linux environments.
Download the programs now!
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Open Government Interoperability Standard
