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Byline: Jon thompson
Standards for trusted computing
While Microsoft continues to promote its Trustworthy Computing initiative, the idea of 'trusted' computing has a more formal meaning. Organised and administered by the US Department of Defense (DoD), the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) set out a number of divisions running from A to D, which define increasing levels of trust and security.
The lowest division is D, reserved for systems that fail all criteria by providing minimal or easily subverted protection. Systems falling into category C1 provide a little more protection by enforcing basic usage limits. It's only when we get to C2 that login procedures and audit trails make an appearance.
What most people consider reasonably secure is what ...