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Week 28 contribution of SDK documentation content. See release notes for details. Fixes bugs Bug 1897 and Bug 1522.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
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<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 
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"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
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and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
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    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
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<!DOCTYPE concept
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  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
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<concept id="GUID-97FFA8D2-4515-448B-8107-61151F252048" xml:lang="en"><title>Content
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security</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
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<p>Information content security can be defined in many ways. The most common
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way is to determine the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><p>Confidentiality defines the privacy level of the information
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and the importance of its content to critical operations. There may be different
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levels of confidentiality, which are defined by the author and the policies
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of the system. Information that is not classified as confidential is considered
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public.</p></li>
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<li><p>Integrity classifies information according to its importance
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to operations. At the highest level of integrity, the information should remain
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intact at all times, without fragmentation or delays in updates.</p></li>
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<li><p>Availability is the most important factor if the information
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must be accessible without interruption for operational reasons.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<p>By applying <xref href="GUID-A1ED2377-E196-423F-A5A2-1889C1CC3E05.dita">cryptography</xref> to
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the elements above, you can introduce additional security features, such as
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traceability, access control, authentication, and repudiation.</p>
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<p>Any data that is stored in the application <codeph>\private\&lt;SID&gt;\</codeph> folder
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can be considered safe, since other applications need the <codeph>AllFiles</codeph> <xref href="GUID-6971B0A2-F79B-4E05-8AF3-BB1FC1932A22.dita">capability</xref> to read
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or write to this location.</p>
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<p>The following aspects of content security  are covered in this section:</p>
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</conbody></concept>