Remote application support in a multilevel environment
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Authors
Cooper, Robert C.
Subjects
Multilevel Security (MLS)
Information Assurance (IA)
Monterey security architecture (MYSEA)
Client-side remote application
Trusted remote session management
Information Assurance (IA)
Monterey security architecture (MYSEA)
Client-side remote application
Trusted remote session management
Advisors
Irvine, Cynthia E.
Nguyen, Thuy D.
Date of Issue
2005-03
Date
March 2005
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
The use of specialized single-level networks in current military operations is inadequate to meet the need to share information envisioned by the Global Information Grid (GIG). Multilevel security (MLS) is a key Information Assurance enabler for the GIG vision. The Monterey Security Architecture (MYSEA), a distributed MLS network, eliminates the need to use separate equipment to connect to many networks at different classification levels. It allows users to view data at different sensitivities simultaneously. MYSEA also allows commercial software and hardware to be used at clients. To address the threat of residual data on the client after a user session change in security state, the MYSEA clients are required to be "stateless", i.e., there is no non-volatile writable memory. Hence the MYSEA server must provide the clients with the ability to execute server-resident client-side applications to access data at different security levels over the MLS Local Area Network (LAN). The MYSEA server currently does not support such capability. This thesis addresses this limitation. A new trusted process family is introduced to provide a pseudo-socket interface for the single level remote application to access the MLS LAN interface. Detailed design specifications were created to facilitate implementation of the remote application support.
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Thesis
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Department
Department of Computer Science
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Format
xviii, 57 p.
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