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Story: Red Hat Linux nears security clearance

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While it is nice that RedHat is going after EAL 2, this only describes the Evaluation Assurance Level. It says nothing about what functional security requirements are being evaluated. To understand that, you need to see a copy of the Target of Evaluation (TOE)document, or know if they are claiming to meet one or more of the published Protection Profiles. Unfortunately, most people do not understand the Common Criteria and just look at EAL ratings. Without the other half of the story, there really is no information given. Is the RedHat TOE publically available?

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