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[Steve Crocker]

The Orange Book criterion for security did not address crashes, correctness, etc.  the only focus was prevention of leakage of information.

Steve

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> On Oct 15, 2025, at 3:57 PM, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> On 10/15/2025 12:09 PM, John Day via Internet-history wrote:
>> I believe that Multics was shown to be secure.
> 
> 
> The story I heard, back then, was that after the multi-level security enhancement to Multics was done and certified, it was installed at the Pentagon AND at MIT.  I heard that the one at MIT proceeded to constantly crash.
> 
> Apparently after awhile, the one at MIT was openly declared to NOT be secure, and the crashing stopped...
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> d/
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> ps.  Within highly constrained environments, I can believe that good security can be achieved.  However we have daily reminders that we still do not know how to make systems secure, at scale.
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