The Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA) is a multiplatform,
industry-standard security infrastructure.
Starting with Version 7.3-1, HP provides CDSA as part of the
OpenVMS Alpha operating system. CDSA is compatible with OpenVMS
Alpha Version 7.2-2 and higher.
CDSA provides a stable, standards-based programming interface
that enables applications to access operating system security services.
With CDSA, you can create cross-platform, security-enabled applications. Security
services, such as cryptography and other public key operations,
are available through a dynamically extensible interface to a set
of plug-in modules. These modules can be supplemented or changed
as business needs and technologies evolve.
CDSA is security middleware that provides flexible mix-and-match
solutions across a variety of applications and security services.
CDSA insulates you from the issues of incorporating security into
applications, freeing you to focus on the applications themselves.
The security underpinnings are transparent to the user.
CDSA was originally developed by Intel Architecture Labs and
was released to the OpenSource community in May 2000. HP's CDSA
implementation is based on the Intel V2.0 Release 3 reference platform,
which implements CDSA V2.0 with Corrigenda, as defined in The Open
Group's Technical Standard C914, May 2000.
For more information about CDSA, see HP Open Source
Security for OpenVMS, Volume 1: Common Data Security Architecture
(CDSA).
HP OpenVMS Guide to System Security
Security Overview
