Martin wrote:
> Does anyone know of any evaluation work - underway or planned - to
> certify one of the BSD's for EAL Common Criteria approval?
>
> For background, a customer's project is _mandated_ to use an OS which
> has passed Common Criteria evaluation - see www.commoncriteriaportal.org
>
> Some OSes with EAL certification include:
> - MS Windows 2000, XP, 2003;
> - Apple Mac OS X 10.3.6;
> - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (text mode only);
> - RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 1 (text mode only).
>
> BSD would be a great fit for this project, but sponsoring an EAL
> Evaluation would be prohibitively expensive for the customer, unless
> there is previous work to base it on. The Mac OS X approval is
> interesting, but unlikely to help very much.
>
> www.trustedbsd.org has some info, but doesn't mention any EAL approval
> applications.
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
> - Martin.

I'm a fan for standards. I'd love to hear any update as it happens. I
check newsgroups often, but don't prefer to subscribe to email lists.

If you don't mind, keep us posted here. You have crossposted, and I
think that's the best way to do it.

Let us know, thank you very much for the link!