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Title: Factors affecting distributed system security

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OSTI ID:6086531

Recent work examining distributed system security requirements is critiqued. A notion of trust based on distributed system topology and distributed system node evaluation levels proposed in that work is shown to be deficient. The notion fails to make allowances for the distributed system physical security environment, security factors related to the management of distributed systems by more than one jurisdictive authority and interactions that can occur between nodes supporting different mandatory and discretionary security mechanisms.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
6086531
Report Number(s):
UCRL-93599; CONF-8604128-1; ON: DE86003483
Resource Relation:
Conference: Symposium on security and privacy, Oakland, CA, USA, 6 Apr 1986
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English