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Abstract. Military operations are increasingly being conducted by ad hoc coalitions.
The need to provide a communications and information system infrastructure
for coalition members with connections to the command support systems
of contingent members, particularly that of the lead nation, poses
difficult information security issues. This paper discusses the heightened need
to support need-to-know separation within a coalition environment compared with
a single nation tactical deployment. Security architecture options for a
coalition ommunications and information system are discussed and the enhancement
of these architectures with public key infrastructure (PKI) per-message confidentiality
services is proposed. The integration of public key infrastructure technology
within a coalition deployment is explored, as is the extension
of the confidentiality services offered by this technology to agencies
external to the coalition deployment via public and rear-link networks.
Related topics:
military messaging, information security, coalition operations, command systems
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