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      <p ns="0" title="BasicConcepts" snippet="The primary security mechanism of SELinux is type enforcement, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; that rules are specified using the type of the process and object:&#10;" size="3178" wordcount="544" timestamp="2009-11-19T18:35:31Z" />
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      <p ns="0" title="RoleStatements" snippet="...&amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;typealias&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; or attribute identifiers associated to domains have any &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; within SELinux.&#10;" size="11359" wordcount="1606" timestamp="2014-12-11T14:31:07Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="MLSStatements" snippet="...n use the term &#039;compartment&#039; or &#039;compartments&#039;, however they have the same &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and optional alias identifiers.&#10;" size="12172" wordcount="1636" timestamp="2014-12-13T15:53:18Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="NB LSM" snippet="&amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;sequence&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; - This is incremented for each event with an even number &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; that the events are stable. An odd number indicates that one of the events &#10;" size="32400" wordcount="5021" timestamp="2015-09-25T13:58:45Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="COTS" snippet="COTS stands for Commercial off-the-shelf Software. &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;Meaning&lt;/span&gt; software that your are able to acquire already made. This sometimes include&#10;" size="246" wordcount="34" timestamp="2010-08-31T20:22:59Z" />
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