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Hewlett-Packard Joins Open Source Study of U.S. Navy
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has committed to becoming a major industry sponsor of the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI). As part of the commitment, HP will help sponsor OSSI s ongoing Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Navy.
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HP, Navy back open-source security initiatives
A team including the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Hewlett-Packard has started the process to get FIPS 140-2 certification for a popular open-source software tool kit called OpenSSL, the Open Source Software Institute announced earlier this week. OpenSSL is the open-source implementation of the secure socket layer, a widely used Web protocol to encrypt sensitive information, such as credit cards numbers.
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Security VARs Tackling Government Accounts Must First Tackle Lingo
OSSI, whose members include the GNOME Foundation, Hewlett-Packard and others, is part of a team working to get FIPS 140-2 certification for an open-source cryptography product.
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SE Linux Advocates Affirm Momentum Among Feds
Open-source software fans cheered when the code for Security-Enhanced Linux was released, arguing that when the most secretive federal agency conducting highly classified operations was using open-source software, nagging doubts about Linux's security might finally be laid to rest.
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