[43931] in Cypherpunks
NOF_uss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Sat Nov 25 18:05:55 1995
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 18:01:10 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Science, Nov 17, 1995:
"Security Schemes Aspire to No Fuss System Protection."
Because of the painful trade offs between security and
usability that come with current protective measures,
computer scientists have heen investigating new ways to
detect and ward off intruders that present fewer
obstacles to users and administrators. Two of the most
intriguing directions announced at the Baltimore
security conference were reported by researchers at
Purdue University's Computer Operations, Audit, and
Security Technology laboratory (COAST). The first was an
attempt to harness techniques from artificial
intelligence to detect intrusions; the second, a pilot
test of what has been called software forensics -- an
effort to recognize malign programs by identifying the
fingerprints of their creators.
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