Обсуждение: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Question - Does PostgreSQL have an Evaluation Assurance Level?

On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 19:51 +0000, Mayer, Nicholas J wrote:
> We found out that while PostgreSQL does not have EAL, the 'Crunchy Data' does have EAL of 2.

I see.  I guess you are aware that a closed source fork of PostgreSQL is probably no more
secure than the original.  But this is more about ticking off checkboxes, right?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Hi Laurenz,

Thanks for this information. That is correct, we are just ticking off the checkboxes at the moment but I appreciate
yourfeedback.
 

Thanks again,

Nick


-----Original Message-----
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> 
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 4:31 PM
To: Mayer, Nicholas J (US) <nicholas.j.mayer@lmco.com>; pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Question - Does PostgreSQL have an Evaluation Assurance Level?

On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 19:51 +0000, Mayer, Nicholas J wrote:
> We found out that while PostgreSQL does not have EAL, the 'Crunchy Data' does have EAL of 2.

I see.  I guess you are aware that a closed source fork of PostgreSQL is probably no more secure than the original.
Butthis is more about ticking off checkboxes, right?
 

Yours,
Laurenz Albe