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High-assurance web-based configuration of secure network server

  • US 7,890,755 B2
  • Filed: 02/28/2006
  • Issued: 02/15/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of configuring a secure network server comprising the following steps:

  • separating a disk of a network management secure network server into network management and user partitions;

    creating an HTTP web server task group when an HTTP connection is initiated with said network management secure network server'"'"'s router address as an IP destination address, said HTTP web server task group being part of a non-trusted security functionality of said network management secure network server;

    uploading a file containing modified configuration data from a remote computer to said network management secure network server, said HTTP web server task group receiving said uploaded file via an IP router interface that is within a trusted security functionality of said network management secure network server and storing said received file in said user partition of said network management secure network server;

    copying said modified configuration data file from said user partition to said network management partition on said disk of said network management secure network server;

    reviewing said modified configuration data in said modified configuration data file in said network management partition using a command line interface that is part of the trusted security functionality of said network management secure network server; and

    configuring said network management secure network server or a second secure network server connected to said network management secure network server in accordance with said modified configuration data in response to the acceptance, via said command line interface, of said modified configuration data by an administrative user,wherein said copying step is performed by a file mover task group that is part of the trusted security functionality of said network management secure network server.

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