Common Criteria

Full Title or Meme

Common Criteria International Standards of secure computing and communications.

Context

• Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation

Taxonomy

The entire document is filled with jargon of their own making. This linked document contains the most interesting terms. Some have been abstraction below.

• TOE = target of evaluation  set of software, firmware and/or hardware possibly accompanied by guidance
• TSF = TOE Security Function. The TSF is a generalization of the TCSEC concept of a TCB. (Trusted Computing Base.)