Title :
Editorial: a view of cryptography in TCSEC products
Author_Institution :
Cordant Inc., USA
Abstract :
The U.S. National Computer Security Center (NCSC) recently announced a change in its historical policy of not accepting encryption of any kind as a protection mechanism for TCSEC evaluated products. This editorial presents an view of this change from a vendor´s perspective and raises some of the issues associated with the new policy
Keywords :
computer centres; cryptography; performance evaluation; National Computer Security Center; TCSEC evaluated products; TCSEC products; cryptography; encryption; historical policy; protection mechanism; vendor perspective;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Security Applications Conference, 1994. Proceedings., 10th Annual
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6795-8
DOI :
10.1109/CSAC.1994.367295