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=== National Computer Security Center === The DoD Computer Security Center was founded in 1981 and renamed the National Computer Security Center (NCSC) in 1985. NCSC was responsible for computer security throughout the federal government.<ref>"The DoD Computer Security Center (DoDCSC) was established in January 1981..." and "In 1985, DoDCSC's name was changed to the National Computer Security Center..." and "its responsibility for computer security throughout the federal government..." in {{cite web|url=http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/secpubs/rainbow/tg001.txt|title=A Guide to Understanding Audit in Trusted Systems|publisher=National Computer Security Center via National Institute of Standards and Technology CSRC|access-date=June 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106123647/http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/secpubs/rainbow/tg001.txt|archive-date=2012-11-06|url-status=dead}}</ref> NCSC was part of NSA,<ref>"NSA and its National Computer Security Center (NCSC) have responsibility for..." in {{cite web|url=http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistbul/csl91-02.txt|title=Computer Systems Laboratory Bulletin|date=February 1991|publisher=National Institute of Standards and Technology CSRC|access-date=June 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702193745/http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistbul/csl91-02.txt|archive-date=2013-07-02|url-status=dead}}</ref> and during the late 1980s and the 1990s, NSA and NCSC published [[Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria]] in a six-foot high [[Rainbow Series]] of books that detailed trusted computing and network platform specifications.<ref name=FAS /> The Rainbow books were replaced by the [[Common Criteria]], however, in the early 2000s.<ref name=FAS>{{cite web|url=https://fas.org/irp/nsa/rainbow.htm|title=NSA/NCSC Rainbow Series|publisher=Federation of American Scientists|access-date=June 30, 2013|archive-date=June 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614021145/https://www.fas.org/irp/nsa/rainbow.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
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