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covert channel: a standalone construct

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Computer security

a communication path not intended for information transfer that a confined program can use to leak data, framed as the confinement problem.

In computer security, covert channel refers to a communication path not intended for information transfer that a confined program can use to leak data, framed as the confinement problem. This meaning comes from Lampson (1973) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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References

Lampson, B. W. (1973). A note on the confinement problem. Communications of the ACM, 16(10), 613-615. https://doi.org/10.1145/362375.362389

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