A network technique to achieve program and data security with nominal communications overhead
James R. Driscoll, H.N. Srinidhi, T. S. Chesser · Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research · 1986
In an environment where copyrighted programs are shared by numerous independent users via a network configuration (e. g. , a local are network), security research efforts have focused primarily on program security or on data security, but not both. The authors are concerned with achieving both types of security and characterizing the communication cost of doing this. They survey existing security techniques for the environment of concern and present a radically novel technique. The authors also analyze and simulate the communication cost of each technique to demonstrate their relative merits. It is shown that the technique requires nominal communications overhead while achieving both program and data security.