Stephen Browne, one of the engineers working on Trusted Extensions for Solaris, has blogged some screenshots of Trusted JDS. The big cool feature is that each individual window carries a security label with it. You can have one window that's labeled "Secret" and another labeled "Top Secret". Information can be cut & pasted from Secret to Top Secret, but not the other way around, i.e., you aren't permitted to de-classify information. Other trusted desktops do their labeling around workspaces or sessions, not individual windows.

Expect to see our new Trusted Extensions, including the Trusted Desktop, in a Solaris 10 Update sometime this fall.

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