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- From: WHMurray@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
- Subject: Secure Attention Keys
- Message-ID: <921108201621.271746@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
- Sender: WHMurray.ISSA@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
- Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 20:16:00 GMT
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- >I completely agree with Dan on this issue. (No, it's not the first
- >time...) One of my biggest gripes against the Orange Books is that
- >it doesn't require a secure attention key until B2, while I think it
- >should be mandatory in B1, and maybe even C2.
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- Secure attention keys work only with closed systems or trusted terminals.
- These account for such a small part of the world as not to be
- interesting. My problem with the Orange book is that it is too archaic
- to recognize this.
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- William Hugh Murray, Executive Consultant, Information System Security
- 49 Locust Avenue, Suite 104, New Canaan, Connecticut 06840
- 203 966 4769, WHMurray at DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
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