The Tower-of-Babel Problem, and Security Assesment Sharing
Andreas R. Blass, Yuri G. Gurevich, Efim Hudis · Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science · 2010
The tower-of-Babel problem is rather general: How to enable a collaboration among experts speaking different languages? A computer security version of the tower-of-Babel problem is rather important. A recent Microsoft solution for that security problem, called Security Assessment Sharing, is based on this idea: A tiny common language goes a long way. We construct simple mathematical models showing that the idea is sound.