Shahbaz

This is a new and useful addition to our research:

TPM Manager for Linux

Lets see how we can put it to use?

My DMAC approach has matured a lot in the meanwhile. Working with DrM in his MBA project, I came to know about web service security architectures and so I made up my mind to use these technologies to implement DMAC. The project and my research will augment each other. Now this is getting really smooth

I have successfully found a solution for Distributed Mandatory Access Control and will soon model it in UML for the completion of my thesis. Recluze, Amin and Asghar Khan are helping me out with UML beocause I am a lay-man at it. InshAllah, I will be submitting my thesis in December.

My literature survey is over! Now I am starting with IPSec to address the issues of labelled ipsec associations for distributed MAC. Next I will investigate the PMS for any oppertunities and I am very optimistic that it will have room for our pupose.

Today I successfully indexed the linux kernel and used it in web interface usinf mozilla. It was quite good. I found it a little slow but 1.2 GB indexed data is justified to be slow!

I am planning to index trousers, IMA and tpm emulator next. I hope I can fit in all of them together. I have thought about it and it will do fine inshAllah.

I have been working on navigational software for viewing indexed source code. It was and is very tedious because of limited work being done on it. I tried lxr and opengrok because they provide sources as webpages in which one can click symbols and see where they are defined and used all over in the software.

LXR is only useful for linux kernel or kernel source codes. One might change the scripts extensively to put it to use for other source codes.

Unlike LXR opengrok is fast and simple and one can use it for all kinds of source codes! It uses java so its faster compared to LXR perl scripts. Both depend on the exuberant CTAGS. And other third party softwares are necessary for its workings.

I am now going to index linux kernel for my selinux research and start interfacing it for trusted computing.