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  From "Electronics" March 5, 87 comes the following bit about
how your tax dollars are hard at work:

    The National Security Agency may muddy up the already
    clouded market for security products when it publishes
    a new list of "endorsed and preferred" computer and
    communications security devices and vendors.  The new
    "Information Systems Security Products and Services" will
    supplement, but not supercede, the Defense Department's
    "DOD Standard - Trusted Computer Systems Evaluation 
    Criteria", also known as the Orange Book, which describes
    the Pentagon's criteria for classifying hardware and software
    and includs an apparently outdated evaluated products list.
    The new book may be out by the end of the month.

    The NSA's National Computer Security Center also has been
    working on an appendix to the Orange Book that would, for the
    first time, cover security-product standards for local- and
    wide-area networks.  Meanwhile, NATO plans to write its own
    standards for secure computer and communication devices,
    apparently in conflict with the Orange Book.


  This last paragraph should prove to be interesting in light of
the NBS's push with GOSIP for OSI networks and DOD's long-time
backing of the TCP/IP suite.

Bob Devine