[Cryptography] To what is Anderson referring here?

Bill Frantz frantz at pwpconsult.com
Fri Jun 6 21:53:27 EDT 2014


On 6/6/14 at 5:02 AM, rsalz at akamai.com (Salz, Rich) wrote:

>RACF

Hehe. I remember being a fly on the wall for a conversation 
between a RACF designer, and some people from the Stanford 
Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). The designer asked about the 
SLAC security policy and the SLAC people replied: SLAC is an 
open laboratory. You must get special permission to keep any 
file secret.

The RACF designer's jaw dropped. She had never heard of such a 
security policy, and had no idea of how to use RACF to enforce it.

Cheers - BIll

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