Design principles for security
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Authors
Benzel, Terry V.
Irvine, Cynthia E.
Levin, Timothy E.
Nguyen, Thuy D.
Clark, Paul C.
Bhaskare, Ganesha
Subjects
Information science.
Information security.
Cybernetics.
Systems engineering.
Computer architecture.
Information security.
Cybernetics.
Systems engineering.
Computer architecture.
Advisors
Date of Issue
2005-09
Date
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
Abstract
As a prelude to the clean-slate design for the SecureCore project, the fundamental security principles from more than four decades of research and development in information security technology were reviewed. As a result of advancing technology, some of the early principles required re-examination. For example, previous worked examples of combinations of hardware, and software may have encountered problems of performance and extensibility, which may no longer exist in today's environment. Moore's law in combination with other advances has yielded better performance processors, memory and context switching mechanisms. Secure systems design approaches to networking and communication are beginning to emerge and new technologies in hardware-assisted trusted platform development and processor virtualization open hither to previously unavailable possibilities. The results of this analysis have been distilled into a review of the principles that underlie the design and implementation of trustworthy systems.
Type
Technical Report
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Computer Science
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
NPS-CS-05-010
Sponsors
Funder
CNS-0430566;National Science Foundation
Format
iv, 23 p.: ill.;28 cm.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.