Properties of the classification scheme of the security option for Internet datagrams

Author

Yang, Chyan ; Billingsley, Arthur

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., US Naval Postgrad. Sch., Monterey, CA, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

11-14 Oct 1992

Firstpage

1106

Abstract

It is pointed out that the security option for datagrams that are transmitted through the Internet will be essential as utilization grows. The newly issued DoD IPSO (Internet Protocol Security Option) provides one octet for the security classification of each datagram transmitted. The current scheme requires a Hamming distance of four between any two valid values. The determination of the values in this octet is a nontrivial problem and presents some interesting properties. The authors discuss the complexity of the problem, its generalization, and the properties of the octet value assignment

Keywords

computer networks; military computing; military systems; protocols; security of data; Department of Defense; Internet Protocol Security Option; Internet datagrams; classification scheme; octet value assignment; security option; Computer networks; Computer security; Data security; Distributed computing; Hamming distance; Information security; Internet; Protection; Protocols; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1992. MILCOM '92, Conference Record. Communications - Fusing Command, Control and Intelligence., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0585-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1992.244114

Filename

244114