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    Security through obscurity: a review of a few of FreeBSD's lesser known security capabilities


    Malone, David (2005) Security through obscurity: a review of a few of FreeBSD's lesser known security capabilities. ;login:, 30 (5). pp. 27-34.

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    Abstract

    In this article I'm going to look at some less well known security features of FreeBSD. Some of these features are common to all the BSDs. Others are FreeBSD specific or have been extended in some way in FreeBSD. The features that I will be discussing are available in FreeBSD
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Security; FreeBSD; BSD; file flags; MAC framework; seeotheruids MAC module; bsdextended MAC module; portacl module; GEOM; Disk Encryption;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
    Faculty of Science and Engineering > Mathematics and Statistics
    Item ID: 6193
    Depositing User: Dr. David Malone
    Date Deposited: 11 Jun 2015 15:42
    Journal or Publication Title: ;login:
    Publisher: usenix
    Refereed: No
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    URI: https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/6193
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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