Blacker (security)

Blacker (styled BLACKER) is a U.S. Department of Defense computer network security project designed to achieve A1 class ratings of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC).[1][2] The project was implemented by SDC and Burroughs. It was the first secure system with trusted End-to-end encryption on the United States' Defense Data Network.[3]

See also
  • RED/BLACK concept for segregation of sensitive plaintext information (RED signals) from encrypted ciphertext (BLACK signals)

References
  1. Weissman, Clark (1992). "BLACKER: security for the DDN examples of A1 security engineering trades". Proceedings 1992 IEEE Computer Society Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy. pp. 286–292. doi:10.1109/RISP.1992.213253. ISBN 0-8186-2825-1.
  2. Weissman, Clark (1995-01-24). "Handbook for the Computer Security Certification of Trusted Systems". Archived from the original on 2012-12-12. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
  3. Pike, John (2000-02-11). "BLACKER, an article at the Intelligence Resource Program". Retrieved 2007-12-02.


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