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Re: Definitions of "Security"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Thu Apr 15 13:39:09 2004
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:15:29 -0400
To: hadmut@danisch.de, cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
At 4:01 PM +0200 4/14/04, hadmut@danisch.de wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for interesting and unusal defitions of the
>term "Security" (or "secure").
>
>I'm fully aware that it is difficult or impossible to give
>a precise, compact, and universal definitions, and some
>book authors explicitely say so. However, there are definitions
>(or attempts to give those), and I'd be interested to compare
>them. If you know of any definition that might be interesting
>for any reason, please send me a link or citation. thanx
>
Here is one of mine that is biology inspired:
"A division of a set of actors into 'self' and 'other' with a
mechanism that allows self actors to perform certain activities that
are effectively denied to others."
Arnold Reinhold
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