Design issues for a trusted electronic document management system

Author

Richard, J.S. ; Rahman, M.H. ; Thomas, S.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., R. Mil. Coll. of Canada, Kingston, Ont., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

9-12 May 1999

Firstpage

373

Abstract

This paper describes the issues related to the design of a trusted electronic document management system (TEDMS). The computer security issues and background research that lead to the final design of a TEDMS application are also discussed. The major component of an electronic document management system (EDMS) is the database in which the documents´ metadata are kept. In a TEDMS, this database becomes a multilevel secure (MLS) database. The challenge of this design is to regroup MLS database design and trusted application design in one homogeneous application.

Keywords

database management systems; document handling; meta data; office automation; security of data; EDMS; TEDMS application; computer security; homogeneous application; metadata; multilevel secure database; trusted application design; trusted electronic document management system; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer security; Data security; Database systems; Educational institutions; Government; Military computing; Multilevel systems; National security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1999 IEEE Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5579-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.1999.807227

Filename

807227