Linux Security Modules Formal concepts

This conference proposes to browse the differences between the models that make up the security modules of Linux kernels. An introduction to implementation will be presented in order to understand how to develop a security...

Nftables Why and how?

Iptables and Netfilter were introduced in 2001 along with Linux 2.4 as  the full  layer for firewall. The functionalities and the codes changed quite a lot during this decade, but nothing like what has been done with nftables. The motivation for this change is to...

VNT Design and implementation

IaaS Providers need next-generation virtualized networks, providing large-scale multi-tenancy services and meeting new requirements in terms of efficiency and availability. The main limitation of current network architectures mainly comes from inadequate design...

Persistent logs using UBI

A short presentation about a library for persistent log based on the UBI layer. The goal is to enable an embedded software component to log persistent messages  (even after a full update of the system)  without requiring the use of a file...

kconfig-frontends, a packaging of the kconfig parser and frontends

The configuration language used by the Linux kernel, known as kconfig, has gained some traction in the community, and is increasingly used by  third-party projects. The kconfig-frontends package aims at centralising the effort of keeping an up-to-date, out of the...