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Saltzer and Schroeder: principles for protecting information

Contribution grade

Computer security · Architectural synthesis

Reference score170,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

A coherent set of protection-design criteria became available for system designers.

Scientific scope

Exact 1975 two-author tutorial; prior principles, Multics implementations and later security practice separate.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author 1975 invited tutorial paper and the principles it states. Earlier individual suggestions acknowledged in the paper, Multics implementations, later security taxonomies and modern secure-development practice remain separate.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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