Security/Privacy Evaluation Subcommittee Report on the Candidate Message-Service Systems for the Military Message Experiment.

摘要

The military message-handling experiment (MME) is a part of a research and development program within the Navy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) whose goal is the developmemt of advanced message-handling systems for the military. The purpose of the MME is to evaluate the use of a secure computer-aided message service at CINCPAC Headquarters, Camp Smith, Oahu, Hawaii. During 22 February through 3 March 1977, candidate message services for the experiment were submitted by Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. (BBN), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California and were evaluated by representatives from the Navy, DARPA, MITRE, CTEC, Inc., and the CINCPAC staff. Because an automated military message service must process messages of multiple levels of classification, issues of security and privacy exerted a major influence in the evaluation and selection process. The results of the security/privacy evaluations of the candidate services are documented in this report of the Security/Privacy Evaluation Subcommittee.