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Computers & Security

Volume 8, Issue 6, October 1989, Pages 507-516
Computers & Security

Placement of data integrity security services in open systems interconnection architecture☆

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Abstract

Data integrity is a property that implies that data have not been altered or destroyed in an unauthorized manner. The placement of such data security services in the emerging open systems interconnection (OSI) seven-layer reference model architecture is presented in this paper. The actual placement of various security services in the OSI architecture is itself a controversial issue. In this paper, we have considered various data integrity services and mechanisms and presented some factors for the selection of suitable layers for the placement of data integrity security services. Also, we have presented considerations for selecting those layers to provide data integrity of all user data on a connection-oriented transmission with and without error recovery; data integrity of selected fields within the user data on a connection without error recovery; data integrity of all user data, and data integrity of selected fields within the user data on a connectionless transmission.

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This work was supported by grants from United Telecommunication, Inc., Westwood, KS and Missouri Research Assistance Act (MRAA), MO.

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Raju Ramaswamy received a B.E. degree in electronics and communication engineering in 1973, an M.S. degree in communication systems engineering in 1975, both from the University of Madras, India, and a Ph.D. degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering in 1985 from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. He was an Associate Lecturer of electronics and communication engineering at the University of Madras from November 1975 to December 1977, a Research Scholar in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering at IIT Kharagpur from January 1978 to April 1982, a Systems Engineer in the Research and development Division of the Computer Maintenance Corporation (CMC) Hyderabad, India, from May 1982 to July 1984, and a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, Tucson, from August 1984 to July 1985. In August 1985, he joined the Computer Science and Telecommunications Department at the University of Missouri at Kansas City as an Assistant Professor.

At CMC, he worked on the Design of Indian National Computer Network (INDONET), and directed and edited Data Communications and Computer Networks Advanced course proceedings. At the University of Arizona, he worked on the design of secure communication of messages over telephone networks project funded by Bell Communications Research, NJ. He published papers on the design of large-scale terrestrial and satellite computer networks, secure communications, and computer network security. He is a member of the IEEE. His current interests are focused on computer network security, local area networks, and lightwave packet networks design.

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