From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a0833bbed8752e1f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!newsserver.cilea.it!news.crs4.it!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: variable length strings Date: 28 Oct 2004 09:18:15 +0200 Organization: CRS4, Center for Adv. Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia Message-ID: References: <1861614.TWv5A9FgVL@linux1.krischik.com> <4178e979_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> <1195374.UMjBCk7lO1@linux1.krischik.com> <1154613.ipZcUgduzp@linux1.krischik.com> <1174011.lJ1dcgRM3Q@linux1.krischik.com> <1098814048.280053@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jacob.crs4.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: pietro.crs4.it 1098942935 2310 156.148.71.80 (28 Oct 2004 05:55:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@nntpserver.crs4.it. NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Oct 2004 05:55:35 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5780 Date: 2004-10-28T05:55:35+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article , Jacob Sparre Andersen > writes: > > Please distinguish between security (unauthorized access) and > > denial-of-service. > > Since the time of the Orange Book, security has long been divided > into three segments in discussions: > > Confidentiality > Integrity > Availability > > Denial-of-service issues clearly fall under Availability. > Unauthorized access is just a tiny part of Confidentiality. I stand corrected, apologise to Pascal, and go to the library to have a look at the �Orange Book� (what's its real title?). Jacob -- "simply because no one had discovered a cure for the universe as a whole - or rather the only one that did exist had been abolished"