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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: What is 'Trusted Oracle'?
>Trusted Oracle was developed originally for the US Government, and runs/ran
>on specific. certified and tested platforms with a specific Oracle release,
>a specific O/S release, a specific hardware platform, and so forth, and the
>whole business was tested and certified as a unit, for security.
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>A key part was MLS, that carried security "labels" down to the row level,
>that were sort of hierarchical, kinda.
The O/S's were are also "Trusted". They applyed the security label concept to files. A number of years back I remember working for a month or two on Sequent server running "Trusted Dynix". The unix accounts had assigned security levels between 0 and 255. Files, devices etc that had higher security than you just didn't exist.
What a nightmare to administer - everything took 4 times as long to do and software was always breaking on the permissions. IMHO if you implement anything on a "trusted" level system you had better really, really need the extra security.
Regards
Dale
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