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Protection Profile for Application Software
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Confusing use of "Sensitive Data" #192

Open woodbe opened 1 day ago

woodbe commented 1 day ago

FDP_DAR_EXT.1 is for sensitive application data, but then the third bullet states that sensitive data could be protected according to FCS_STO_EXT.1, which is specifically about credentials. While this does meet the definition of sensitive data (which includes credentials and keys), it seems to be putting too many things into that bucket.

I think it would be best to keep credentials and keys as one item (covered specifically by FCS_STO_EXT.1) and then Sensitive data to be everything else.

Just to keep things clean, having "data" and "keys" mixed as "sensitive data" is confusing, and ideally should be minimized.