Protection and the control of information sharing in multics
The work
| Authors | Jerome Howard Saltzer |
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| Editors | |
| Type | article |
| Year | 1974 |
| Citekey | saltzer1974protection |
Where it appeared
| Published in | Communications of the ACM |
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| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 388--402 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.1145/361011.361067 |
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| OpenAlex | W2121251946 |
Access
| Landing page | https://doi.org/10.1145/361011.361067 |
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| Free full text | https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/361011.361067 |
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Abstract
The design of mechanisms to control the sharing of information in the Multics system is described. Five design principles help provide insight into the tradeoffs among different possible designs. The key mechanisms described include access control lists, hierarchical control of access specifications, identification and authentication of users, and primary memory protection. The paper ends with a discussion of several known weaknesses in the current protection mechanism design.
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Cite it as
@article{saltzer1974protection,
title = {Protection and the control of information sharing in multics},
author = {Jerome Howard Saltzer},
year = {1974},
journal = {Communications of the ACM},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
volume = {17},
number = {7},
pages = {388--402},
doi = {10.1145/361011.361067},
}
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