The COE Security Conformance test consists of a test suite called the HOSTS (Host-Oriented Security Test Suite), which is used for evaluating an implementation’s compliance with the Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) Common Operating Environment (COE) Security Requirements Specification (SRS). These tests are primarily written in the PERL language v. 5 and the Bourne shell, and are portable to POSIX systems. The HOSTS distribution is organized into several sections, including the main driver program, several common task plugin modules, and test input files based on the five COE KPC security test categories.
The "Security Testing Procedures" as they are required for validating COE 4.2P6 security under the Open Group COE certification program can be found as the tog_coe-Security_Testing-v.1.0.pdf file located in the doc directory on the hosts-1.0.tar file. Alternatively, this document as well as all COE validations procedures for COE certification can be found at:
http://www.opengroup.org/coe/protected/valprocs/v1.0/
The standard operating procedure for the HOSTS test suite is described in the document “Host-Oriented_Security_Test_Suite-sop-v1-5-0-0.pdf”. It can be located in the doc directory on the hosts-1.0.tar file.
A detailed status of the current problems and methods of analysis has been discussed in detail in the "Results Interpretation within the Common Operating Environment Kernel Platform Certification Security Test Plan’s Automated Environment". This document and be found in the doc director and is labeled as the "kpc_failure_interpretation.pdf" on the hosts-1.0.tar file.
File Structure of the PlatformV1.0 COE security directory
on the
Open Group ftp site located at:
ftp://ftp.opengroup.org/pub/COE/
Directory/File Description
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./PlatformV1
/COE-Test-Doc Contains copy of all test doc found on hosts-1.0.tar plus manual test procedures.
./PlatformV1
/Security
/hosts-1.0.tar Tar file containing HOSTS automated test suite.
/LICENSE.txt License
/Release_Notes.txt Release Notes for COE Security PlatformV1
(This file)
The following directories and files are contained in the hosts-1.0.tar file.
Directory Description
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doc Documentation
bin Main program
sample_runs Sample execution runs
solaris Test series and plugins for Solaris
Files Description
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000_README Describes contents of hosts-1.0.tar file
000_README.XEQ Instructions for executing HOSTS
Rel1.0 Version Number File
Release_Notes-v1.0 Release Notes for version 1.0
LICENSE GNU license governing HOSTS
hosts.pl Hard link to program under ./bin
Information about the procedures for applying for interpretations
and waivers can be found on The Open Group's World Wide Web site,
at the URL:
http://www.opengroup.org/interpretations
A searchable database of existing interpretations and waivers is available at the URL:
http://www.opengroup.org/interpretations/database
For more information of The Open Group COE Platform Certification program see:
http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/coe/
For more information on the COE Forum see: