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Subject: Re: [E-Lang] Migration and Una (was: E FAQ)
From: Mark S Miller <markm () caplet ! com>
Date: 2001-10-01 6:40:53
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At 09:42 PM Sunday 9/30/01, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>> Btw, in light of previous discussions on e-lang, we may want to rephrase
>> this as "mutually reliant UTCBs".
>
>Actually, term "TCB" is now considered obsolete in the assurance community.
>The term du jour is now TSF, for Trusted Security Functions.
Is this just a relabelling, or does it have a different definition? Is
"TCB" considered obsolete for a good reason, or is it just fashion? Should
we now say UTSF for those parts of a system on which all the rest of the
system necessarily relies on / is at the mercy of? Or should we just coin a
new term, like "reliance base" or something?
>It is also now clear to me why we had such trouble with the idea of nested
>TCBs. Neither the TCSEC nor Common Criteria language lends itself to
>object-oriented structure. The deeper I get into assurance the more
>convinced I become that fundamental work is needed in this area.
Sounds interesting. What do you have in mind?
What should one read to learn the perspectives of the assurance community?
Cheers,
--MarkM
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