A brief description of privacy measures in the multics operating system

  • Authors:
  • Edward L. Glaser

  • Affiliations:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '67 (Spring) Proceedings of the April 18-20, 1967, spring joint computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1967

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Abstract

The problem of maintaining information privacy in a multi-user, remote-access system is quite complex. Hopefully, without going into detail, some idea can be given of the mechanisms that have been used in the Multics operating system at MIT.