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| reason1000 2003-03-03, 3:07 pm |
| Hello.
I was just starting to read the certificationsuccess.com security+ study guide when I came across the access control section and found what appears to be an error. The Mike Meyers passport book for this exam states that MAC means "Mandatory Access Control" and the certificationsuccess.com guide says that it means "Message Authentication Code." Which one is right? I'm guessing the passport book is.
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Rod | |
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| Ummm - hate to confuse you dood, but both are corect.
Message Authentication Code - or the most common form HMAC - Hash MAC.
The CryptoAPI algorithm name for the Message Authentication Code algorithm. CryptoAPI also references this algorithm by its algorithm identifier (CALG_MAC) and class (ALG_CLASS_HASH).
Mandatory Access Control - or the military strength one .. Is where the OS of the network is in control of the data. Owners can set access rights, but the OS access controls over-ride any data owner settings.
I think the easiest way to seperate them is to figure whether you are dealing with media access/privileges or cryptography. | |
| The Cert Sage 2003-03-03, 8:45 pm |
| In the context of what the guide is talking about in which we are discussing cryptology the www.certificationsuccess.com guide is correct and we stand by the explanation of the term.
We update and correct our guides immediately when something is brought to our attention.Please let us know if you have any other issues/conflicts that may arise.
It's a free guide but we wanted as good as quality as any of the Study Guide's you are paying for on the net and keep ours braindump free also. | |
| reason1000 2003-03-03, 8:57 pm |
| Anyone else have any input on this?
Thanks,
Rod | |
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| I agree Cert Sage. I haven't viewed your study guide as I am happy with the passport series book and Tcats work, but I may view your later just for the hell of it. The problem reason1000 had will occur in a few other areas such as
RBAC - either Role Based Access Control or Rule Based Access Control.
Once one gets a reasonable grasp on the subject you can then figure out which means which :-) | |
| reason1000 2003-03-04, 7:42 am |
| MAC is mentioned in context of access controls and in the study guide it says that it is "Message Authentication Code" (Please look at page 7 of the pdf). MAC is mentioned in the cryptography section as well and it too says that it means "Message Authentication Code" In the context of access controls MAC is "Mandatory Access Controls" not "Message Authentication Code." | |
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| As the other messages point out, both are correct. And we could add Media Access Control to make 3 possible acroynms ;-)
For the purpose of 'verbose' (big pun) Security+ test objectives, Mandatory Access Control is correct. I derived that from (besides taking the Security+ test) from where MAC is in relationship to the rest of the objectives, DAC, and RBAC.
The PDF from Cert Sage is very very cool stuff. While it is not possible to pack *everything* in +/- 50 pages, you sure cannot beat the price! It's a good read.
I am working it in as a reference to the next version of my PDF and will be creating a link for it when I update the alphageekproductions.com web site  |
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