Monday October 30, 2006
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Monday October 30, 2006
Unique?
This site claims that my name is unique in the United States, at least based on their interpretation of Census Department statistics, though I've been asked before in blog comments if I'm “the Alan Coopersmith that co-authored Quadpan with Guppy while at Lockheed in the 80s? A Brown math PhD?” (No, I'm not - I was in grade school and high school in the 80's and have only a Bachelor's degree from Berkeley.)
Google mainly finds just me, though it did turn up an “Allan Coopersmith” who was issued a patent for a dental invention.
The other statistics offered me about my name:
- There are 305,968 people in the U.S. with the first name Alan.
- Statistically the 204th most popular first name. (tied with 2 other first names)
- More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Alan are male.
- There are 1,050 people in the U.S. with the last name Coopersmith.
- Statistically the 25874th most popular last name. (tied with 1020 other last names)
Somehow the gender breakdown doesn't surprise me, though I've been seeing female variants like “Alana” pop up more and more on TV shows and such lately.
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Posted at 11:18PM Oct 30, 2006 by Alan Coopersmith in General | Comments[4]
Friday October 06, 2006
XACE merged into Xorg for X11R7.2
The XACE framework for handling security policy extensions has been merged to the Xorg server code base for the upcoming X11R7.2 release. This is the rough equivalent of the hooks that were put into the core Solaris Xsun & Xorg servers to call out to the Xtsol extension module as necessary to implement the security policy.
XACE was originally designed by Eamon Walsh at the NSA for SELinux, and working with us this summer, modified to add the additional hooks needed by Xtsol, so it could serve as a common framework acceptable to both SELinux & Solaris Trusted Extensions. (For instance, in the original design, there were no hooks for auditing, as the SELinux code did not audit X requests as Xtsol does.)
The actual policy extension modules (X-SELINUX & Xtsol) were not ready to merge in time for the 7.2 release, so they are planned for the 7.3 release. (X.Org is currently doing full releases every 6 months, May & November, but individual modules can release at any time they are ready, so just because we missed 7.2 doesn't mean we have to wait until next May to integrate Xtsol to X.Org.)
For those who aren't familiar with the technology, a brief overview may be found in the slides [PDF format] from my talk on Security Extensions in X from this summer's Desktop Developer's Conference. A much more detailed look at the Solaris Trusted Extensions OS as a whole, including the X server and desktop, can be found in the slides from the Trusted Extensions talk by Glenn Faden at last week's Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group meeting.
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Posted at 07:13PM Oct 06, 2006 by Alan Coopersmith in X11 |
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