Functional Security Criteria for Distributed Systems

Cugini, Janet; Dobry, Rob; Gligor, Virgil; Mayfield, Terry

Conference Proceedings

Functional Security Criteria for Distributed Systems

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Published: October 10, 1995

Author(s)

Janet Cugini (NIST), Rob Dobry (NSA), Virgil Gligor (University of Maryland), Terry Mayfield (IDA)

Conference

Name: 18th National Information Systems Security Conference (NISSC)
Dates: October 10-13, 1995
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Citation: Proceedings of the 18th National Information Systems Security Conference, vol. 1, pp. 310-321

Abstract

The National Security Agency (NSA) with the cooperation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) formed a technical group to create security requirements for distributed systems. These include requirements for data confidentiality, data integrity, cryptography, distributed identification and authentication, as well as for access control, auditing, system management, trusted path, and trusted recovery for distributed systems. These requirements are being reviewed for incorporation within the Common Criteria, which is a joint effort of the United States (NSA and NIST), Canada, France, Great Britain, and Germany to come up with a single criteria for security requirements.

Keywords

protection profiles; security targets; assignment; refinement; augmentation; cryptography; key management; distributed system; secure distributed system; realm; trusted channel; security perimeter; interconnection policies; simple subject; compound subject; delegation chain; restricted delegation chain; AND-chained identities; message origin authentication; mutual authentication

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Document History:
10/10/95: Conference Proceedings (Final)