[ILUG] OT - Rainbow series

[Michael Watterson]

Brian Foster wrote:
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>   |[ ... ]
>   | I presume you mean like Red book CD Audio, White Book VCD etc ..
>
>  NO.  “InfoSec” (Andrew's new job) is US-DoD (military)
>  shorthand for “Information Security”.  in DoD/NSA-land
>  that means keeping everything Top Secret, and keeping
>  the Top Secret stuff really secret.  the various books
>  we are talking about are guidelines (NOT standards)
>  for how to do that.  (most are really boring as well.)
>   
Well I must read what people say more carefully and not make assumptions 
based on my own experiences.
Quote:
/"For the series of U.S. government publications on computer security 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security> standards, see Rainbow 
Series <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Series>.
/The *Rainbow Books* are a collection of standards defining the allowed 
formats of Compact Discs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc>."

The Rainbow Books make fairly boring reading too. Poor character 
development and plots.

I suspect Len Deighton <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Deighton>,  
Fredick Forsythe, and John Le Carre might be just as useful for Security 
as the Rainbow Series, given US performance since 1945.

I remember also having CCITT "rainbow books" in mid 1980s when designing 
SW & HW for Trunk Protocol Translation of Central offices (At least the 
Red one).  I suspect that more Linux Programmers need the Compact Disk 
and CCITT coloured books than the USA Colored books :-)   Any CHILL 
anyone?  (Z.200).

-- 
Mike