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Cambridge, Mass.--This November at 13 military sites nationwide, BBN Communications will install an X.400 messaging system test bed that uses the Message Security Protocol (MSP) to protect messages.
The messaging system, which about 100 users in the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force will test-drive for a year, is the planned prototype for the Defense Message System (DMS). It will be the first major implementation of MSP, which could ultimately become the Open Systems Interconnection standard for X.400 protection.
"MSP, when it's used in conjunction with cryptography, provides a very secure messaging system," said Susan Albert, program manager for trusted systems at BBN Communications, a division of Bolt Beranek and Neman, Inc.
MSP was developed by a dozen vendors under the Department of Defense's Secure Data Network System Program, which asked members of the industry to come up with a new protocol for OSI-based security, Albert said. MSP fulfills the need for a...