French cyber-security agency open-sources CLIP OS, a security hardened OS by Catalin Cimpanu.
From the post:
The National Cybersecurity Agency of France, also known as ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information), has open-sourced CLIP OS, an in-house operating system its engineers had developed to address the needs of the French government administration.
In a press release, ANSSI described CLIP OS as a “Linux-based operating system [that] incorporates a set of security mechanisms that give it a very high level of resistance to malicious code and allow it to protect sensitive information.”
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More details are available at The CLIP OS Project, including version 4 (current release, documentation in French), and version 5 (alpha version, documentation in English).
The lack of a build version makes me wonder the breadth of CLIP OS deployment. Within ANSSI or the French government more generally.
Not that you want to rely on security by obscurity, but if CLIP OS is a substantial security advance over comparable systems, why open source it?
The open source motivation could be to boost a French vendor has a commercial product along similar lines. Perhaps former members of the ANSSI?
In any event, enjoy getting the CLIP OS up and running as preparation to finding its soft spots.