Title
STU-III-multilevel secure computer interface
Abstract
The interconnection of the STU-III (Secure Telephone Unit) and a multilevel secure (MLS) host computer is a layered composition of systems. The composed systems that form the layers result from the connection processing done to establish the host-to-host link. To ensure that the system represented by each composed layer is consistent with the security policy, an additional agent must be added to the host's trusted computing base (TCB). This agent manages the STU-III data port interface and undertakes the coordination necessary to ensure that the security state is consistent between each layer; this coordination includes the security coordination between the two host TCBs and the eventual establishment of the remote session. The agent is implemented as a trusted process and is invisible to a process requesting connection to another host. This implementation allows for the greatest flexibility in the use of hardware at some additional cost in complexity
Year
DOI
Venue
1994
10.1109/CSAC.1994.367310
Orlando, FL
Keywords
Field
DocType
automatic telephone systems,data communication,data communication equipment,network interfaces,security of data,telecommunication computing,telephony,STU-III,Secure Telephone Unit,complexity,connection processing,data port interface,hardware use flexiblity,host-to-host link,layered composition,multilevel secure host computer,remote session establishment,security coordination,security policy,software agent,trusted computing base,trusted process
Data security,Secure telephone,Computer security,Computer science,Covert channel,Computer network,Host (network),Security service,Security policy,Trusted computing base,Computer security model,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-8186-6795-8
3
1.64
References 
Authors
2
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eugene D. Myers131.64