Re: Orange book, the NSA, and the NCSC

[khijol!erc (Ed Carp)]

> I got on this list of automatic books several years ago and now have
> about a dozen or more different publications, in different colors,
> from blue to green to the famous orange. All from the National
> Computer Security Center.
> 
> Nothing juicy, and not much fun (for me) to read. Unix gurus trying to
> get better security classifications for their machines and systems
> have to read this stuff, though.

I had to wade through all that government stuff a while back.  I've got the
complete series, but haven't gotten any updates. :(  It's all pretty dry
and stuffy, but it did have some useful stuff, like the password guidelines
and how they figure out which machines can be trusted and which can't.

> Savage Road is the actual address of the Agency; Fort Meade per se is
> huge. NCSC as created in 1984 as part of NSDD-145 (National Security
> Decision Directive-145, a very important one). Prior to that date it
> had been called the DoD Computer Security Center, located smack dab in
> the center of SIGINT City.

Why is Directive 145 important?  <curious>

> I'd long been meaning to ask Dan about this. General Odom once was
> introduced at a speech he was giving to Jim Bamford. Odom recoiled and
> said "Sir, I consider you to be an unindicted felon." 

<snicker>  I got a good laugh out of that one!! :) :)
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