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Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2015 Computer security 1 a i Solution by
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The Bell-LaPadula model protects information confidentiality by controlling information flow between security levels. Its simple security property says that a subject may read only objects whose classification does not exceed its maximum clearance:Thus a user cleared for confidential material cannot directly read a secret file. A readwrite permission includes reading and must satisfy the same restriction. This is an access control rule about who can learn existing contents; it says nothing by itself about where a cleared subject can subsequently copy them.
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