Scope of the LinSec project far exceeds the undergraduate curricula at the Department of Computer Science, UCL, in almost all aspects that were required for its successful completion, namely:
Although the author had strong background in these areas, large proportion of the knowledge required has been acquired during the project realization from the literature, various online sources and practice. Furthermore, the fact that very few projects exist that address the same problem in Linux added a rather strong research component to the LinSec project. This is regarded as invaluable experience.
The Linux related background knowledge came largely from, in addition to the sources listed in the bibliography, various Linux kernel development forums and mailing lists such as: the linux-kernel mailing list, the Linux Security Module (LSM) mailing list, the kernel-newbies mailing list, etc.