At 03:03 AM 12/21/2003, Ian Grigg wrote:
What is the source of the acronym PAIN?

I've seen, for many years, the acronym "CAIN", where the C is "Confidentiality". I think that was in the Orange Book.


There's also, historically, an R for "Robustness" or "Reliability" in many military contexts, instead of the N for Nonrepudiation. That is, protection from denial-of-service attacks.

Lastly, the A is often Authorization rather than Authentication, since integrity implies identification of the source.

The first time I recall seeing PAIN was just a few weeks ago, in postings by Lynn.

I don't know if that helps, because I certainly got mightily confused while writing it.

Greg.



Lynn said:

> ... A security taxonomy, PAIN:
> * privacy (aka thinks like encryption)
> * authentication (origin)
> * integrity (contents)
> * non-repudiation


I.e., its provenance?


Google shows only a few hits, indicating
it is not widespread.

iang

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