[apparmor] RAppArmor: AppArmor for R

[Jeroen Ooms]

Sure, just ping me whenever you want to have a chat.



On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Frankie Onuonga <onuonga at live.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I know main guys in the community do get busy  but considering they helped
> me a lot when I needed to do a few presentations I am also willing to help
> you.
>
> If possible I can have a look at this and we discuss on friday.
> Is that ok with you?
>
> thanks,
>
> Frankie Onuonga
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.ooms at stat.ucla.edu>wrote:
>
>> Dear AppArmor users/developers,
>>
>> I am planning on introducing AppArmor to the R community. R is a GNU
>> project for statistical computing, widely popular in academia, however
>> security is a long standing issue. I wrote an R package containing
>> some interfaces to AppArmor [1][2] accompanied by a paper for the
>> Journal of Statistical Software [3] introducing some functionality
>> that could potentially be useful for R.
>>
>> I realize that there are probably not a lot of R users in here, but if
>> someone finds it interesting to give this a try, or has any
>> tips/feedback for the paper before I submit it, please get in touch.
>> The package can easily be installed from Launchpad. The paper is
>> written for R users with no background at all in security; hence it is
>> written on a very introductory level regarding security and AppArmor.
>> It only scratches the surface of what AppArmor potentially has to
>> offer. Nevertheless, I am not a security expert myself, so is would be
>> great to get someone with an AppArmor background to look at the paper
>> before it is finalized.
>>
>> Thanks for all contributions. I am quite convinced that R and AppArmor
>> is a powerful combination, and this approach could be very beneficial
>> to both communities.
>>
>> Jeroen
>>
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/jeroenooms/RAppArmor
>> [2]
>> https://github.com/jeroenooms/RAppArmor/raw/master/paper/RAppArmor-manual.pdf
>> [3] https://github.com/jeroenooms/RAppArmor/raw/master/paper/document.pdf
>>
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