====== The Flume System ======

The Flume system is an implementation of distributed information flow control (DIFC) for the Linux operating system. This is the official site of the Flume system, where you can find information on publications, development and distributions.



===== Publications =====

"Information Flow Control for Standard OS Abstractions."
Maxwell Krohn, Alexander Yip, Micah Brodsky, Natan Cliffer, M. Frans Kaashoek, Eddie Kohler, Robert Morris.
In //Proceedings of the 21st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles// ([[http://www.sosp2007.org|SOSP 2007]]), Stevenson, Washington, USA, October 2007. [
[[http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~max/docs/flume.ps|ps]] |
[[http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~max/docs/flume.ps.gz|ps.gz]] |
[[http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~max/docs/flume.pdf|pdf]] ]



===== Talks =====

Max Krohn's job talk, which was based on Flume [[http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~max/talks/krohn-job.pptx|pptx]]


===== Software =====

  * [[flume:install|Installing Flume (pre Ubuntu 8.04)]]
  * [[flume:install2|Installing Flume (Ubuntu 8.04)]]
  * [[http://flume.csail.mit.edu:8080|Bug Tracker]]
  * [[flume:workarounds| Workarounds]] that we've found useful for unresolved bugs

===== People =====
   * [[http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~yipal/|Alex Yip]]
   * [[http://www.maxk.org/|Max Krohn]]




===== Blog / Current Projects =====

    * [[flume:todo|Todo List]]
    * [[flume:django|Django/Flume Integration]]

===== Contact Us =====
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