Re: Label Security: Maybe I missed another naming but ...

From: Pete Finnigan <pete_at_petefinnigan.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:57:20 +0100
Message-ID: <WOeJZDBwXZX$EwOq@peterfinnigan.demon.co.uk>

Hi Daniel

As far as I understand it label security is now what trusted Oracle used to be. It adds, well "labels" to each row of data that you specify and these labels have "levels" of access like "secret", "top secret" etc. It was intended for the intelligence agencies (Oracles original first clients) so that only those persons authorised to see certain data could see that data and not data protected at a higher security level. As far as I know its now implemented using RLS as a set of procedures sat on top of RLS to implement the labels.

cheers

Pete

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