[TUHS] Government-Issue UNIX?

[Brian Walden via TUHS]

Sorry New York Comic-Con started last Thursday, but now that it is
done, a compressed tar tree for SVMLS, System V/Multi-Level Security, the
Orange Book changes by Bell Labs' Whippany Federal Systems from mid 1988
has somehow appeared in the wild at

https://www.mediafire.com/file/7b5hp5gyl8k6uk4/svmls.tgz/file

But act fast, as it will only be available for the next 14 days and then
will be auto-deleted. It's small at under 200K, as it was intentionally
kept lean, with the kernel changes under uts/ (the orig files are there
too for an easy diff) and the security audit trail (sat) utilities
under cmd/

> Douglas McIlroy via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> When Jim Reeds and I were making the IX multilevel-secure Unix
> (1987-88), an Orange-Book-compliant Unix was being made for the
> government at BTL's Whippany Lab. There was some communication between
> the two projects, but different objectives led to significantly
> different systems.
>
> Did the Whippany product become KSOS, or did DOD end up with two
> "secure" Unixes?
>
> Doug