Thales Message Handling System (MHS)
Thales Systems Canada
a Division of Thales Canada Inc
49 Auriga Drive
Ottawa, ON
Canada
K2E 8A1
Phone: 613-723-7000
The Thales Message Handling System (MHS), comprising MHS Server Version 5.1 and MHS Client Version 1.0, was the subject of a Common Criteria evaluation performed by the Common Criteria Evaluation Facility at DOMUS IT Security Laboratories, located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The evaluation was completed on 16 April 2004.
The evaluation of the Thales MHS determined that this Information Technology (IT) product can be trusted, to an assurance level of EAL 3, to conform to the requirements of the associated security target.
The Thales MHS is a multi-user, network based, Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS), configurable application which prepares, transmits, receives, and distributes radio teletype messages. The Thales MHS provides the user with the ability to create, modify, store, distribute, send, and receive messages simultaneously over all channels in the communication system. It is based on the Allied Communication Publication (ACP) 127 message format, a radio teletype standard, which is widely used in naval systems.
The evaluated configuration comprises: the MHS Server Version 5.1 running on an Intel Pentium PC with Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Service Pack 6 (configured as per Microsoft C2 Administrator's and user's security guide 1.1 document), and Borland's Interbase 6 database software; and the MHS Client Version 1.0 running on an Intel Pentium PC with Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Service Pack 6 (configured as per Microsoft C2 Administrator's and user's security guide 1.1 document), and Sun's Java 2 runtime environment standard edition version 1.3.0_02.
The scope of this evaluation is defined by the security target, which identifies assumptions made during the evaluation, the intended environment for the Thales MHS, the IT security requirements to be met, and the level of confidence (evaluation assurance level) to which it is asserted that the Thales MHS satisfies its IT security requirements. Consumers are advised to verify that their operating environment is consistent with the security target.
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