Talk:Multilevel security

message: MLS itself isn't a model - it's either a mode or a mechanism, and there are lots of models associated with MLS, but MLS itself isn't a model. I suppose it could be in the models category, but it belongs in the top level category, too. Rick Smith 23:24, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  MLS isn't a model 

message: Overall this is a definite improvement to the article - my last edit added material about MILS/MSL in order to correct what looked like commercialization to me. The new material, especially on NetTop, rounds things out nicely.
However, I'm skeptical about some of the new material. I don't see MILS as being a generalization that incorporates MLS, and I don't think Mark Van Fleet (or his Powerpoint) intended to convey that. MLS, as described in the Wiki article (and as it has been used traditionally in user communities, though not so much by people who understand the security technology), is a Holy Grail of clean, painless data exchange without the risk of compromise. However, according to security technologists, MLS is a mechanism that implements Bell-LaPadula, or something like it. MILS is a technical-architectural strategy for implementing MLS data sharing. Van Fleet's Powerpoint about MILS talks about MLS in technical terms (implementing BLP) and classifies MLS technology in that vein. In that sense, it's talking about a narrower definition of MLS than is addressed in the article.
Incidentally, it's ahistoric to refer to periods processing as an "advance" in MSL. It's what people did back in the '50s and '60s and '70s when they couldn't afford separate computers to process data at different classification levels. Its inefficiency essentially led to the push for MLS. 
Maybe I should do a "history" section.  
(When you do - SACDIN was renamed SACCS DTS in the late 80's and it is still operating MLS - also not I386 but IBM Commercial Series/1)
Rick Smith 01:46, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of MILS and MLS 

message: This page should be moved to "Multilevel Security" which omits the hyphen.The hyphen is not consistently used, and I think its presence makes the article harder to find.As a beginner I don't know what the protocol is regarding hyphenating compound words like that. -- Cryptosmith 19:20, 6 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: The author(s) sound like being all-in on that topic and it is hard to transfer information down to one's own level.
With that said:
This is one of the most rewarding to read articles i've found on wikipedia. I actually learned something, and was able to take away many background infos I had *never* been aware of.
That's as someone who went through the NSA C2 guides back in windows NT times just for fun, and read enough documentation to already know about trusted systems before wikipedia was even a thing.
That means, knowing the concepts, but not working in that specific domain, this article was GREAT.
So, please, deleters and editors of "opionated articles", at least take note:
This article is not how it should be in an encyclopedia. But, the level of knowledge to be gained from this one is INSANE. Please don't dumb it down till it's useless to people who can actually learn from it. don't ruin it.
What I think is needed is a dozen articles around this one building the knowledge body to read _THIS ONE_.
2001:A60:162D:2101:7A24:AFFF:FE42:3EA5 (talk) 20:20, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  personal style is background information 

message: There is an unresolved reference where it says "more below" about an OS certified 6+ - but nowhere below is a 6+ certification mentioned again.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.214.54.250 (talk) 08:44, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  unresolved reference 

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