A Test for Non-Disclosure in Security Level Translations

Abstract

Two security domains that want to exchange information security may need to agree on translations of Mandatory Access Control (MAC) labels of their information, if their MAC labels have a different syntax or semantics. It is desirable that these translations do not introduce any confidentiality violations. In this paper we present a property, the Security Level Translation Property (SLTP), which must hold if the security level translation functions satisfy MAC confidentiality. This property is in some sense the best possible test of the level translations in the absence of a "common domain" that gives the real relationships among the levels of the two domains.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA436278

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People

  • David M. Rosenthal
  • Francis Fung

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Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Clearances
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Embedding
  • Information Operations
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • Military Research
  • National Security
  • Secure Communications
  • Security
  • Social Sciences
  • Translations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Cybersecurity.