Colorful Security Question
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red/black_concept describes a notation sometimes used when discussing confidentiality:
- red denotes signals carrying secret plaintext;
- black denotes signals carrying ciphertext.
Is there any generally agreed coloring for the analogous integrity question? i.e.:
- a color which denotes signals where integrity matters (or maybe this is "all of them" and we don't need a specific choice of color); and
- a color which indicates a signal with cryptographic integrity protection of some kind.
Non-color visual notations also welcome for several reasons:
- things still get printed in monochrome;
- color vision is not uniform among humans;
- using too many color notations at once leads to angry fruit salad rather than clear diagrams.
Integrity
Signals that aren't protected like that, have to be protected in other ways (like keeping them inside a potted module).
Once you have that distinction, it is useful to be able to show them graphically.
Of course, manipulating a signal requires a more powerful attacker than reading it (it's the difference between Schneier's "Mallory" and "Eve" figures).