Protection

Abstract

The discussion during this session primarily centered around the paper "On Data Secure Computer Networks" by G.J. Popek. Popek suggested that the main security problems in computer networks involved the security of the host computers in the network and that techniques for securing general communications networks are satisfactory for dealing with the communication aspects of computer networks. The main problems which need to be addressed are the problems of authenticating processes in different computer systems in the network to each other and of providing the required degree of security in the computer systems in the network. There was no real dispute of Popek's claims by the attendees at the workshop.