A question of trust

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 11:04:33 -0500,
   m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>Here's one for the selinux list: a thread just started on the CentOS list,
>about whether the encryption tools from upstream were trustworthy, given
>the revelations from Snowdon in the last six months. That, of course,
>leads to the question as to whether selinux, and its base policies, are
>trustworthy, given they were written by the NSA....
>
>So, why *should* we trust it?

The code was looked at by other kernel developers. There are already plenty 
of kernel bugs being found, I don't think the risk of using the selinux code 
is significantly higher than using the rest of the kernel.

Selinux itself, isn't doing anything secret. At its heart it's a pretty 
simple system.