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diff --git a/Documentation/netlabel/introduction.txt b/Documentation/netlabel/introduction.rst index 3caf77bcff0f..9333bbb0adc1 100644 --- a/Documentation/netlabel/introduction.txt +++ b/Documentation/netlabel/introduction.rst @@ -1,10 +1,13 @@ +===================== NetLabel Introduction -============================================================================== +===================== + Paul Moore, paul.moore@hp.com August 2, 2006 - * Overview +Overview +======== NetLabel is a mechanism which can be used by kernel security modules to attach security attributes to outgoing network packets generated from user space @@ -12,7 +15,8 @@ applications and read security attributes from incoming network packets. It is composed of three main components, the protocol engines, the communication layer, and the kernel security module API. - * Protocol Engines +Protocol Engines +================ The protocol engines are responsible for both applying and retrieving the network packet's security attributes. If any translation between the network @@ -24,7 +28,8 @@ the NetLabel kernel security module API described below. Detailed information about each NetLabel protocol engine can be found in this directory. - * Communication Layer +Communication Layer +=================== The communication layer exists to allow NetLabel configuration and monitoring from user space. The NetLabel communication layer uses a message based @@ -33,7 +38,8 @@ formatting of these NetLabel messages as well as the Generic NETLINK family names can be found in the 'net/netlabel/' directory as comments in the header files as well as in 'include/net/netlabel.h'. - * Security Module API +Security Module API +=================== The purpose of the NetLabel security module API is to provide a protocol independent interface to the underlying NetLabel protocol engines. In addition |