A flexible security system for metacomputing environments

Adam Ferrari, Frederick Knabe, Marty Humphrey, Steve Chapin, Andrew Grimshaw

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Abstract

A metacomputing environment is a collection of geographically distributed resources (people, computers, devices, databases) connected by one or more high-speed networks, and potentially spanning multiple administrative domains. Security is an essential part of metasystem design—high-level resources and services defined by the metacomputer must be protected from one another and from corrupted underlying resources, and underlying resources must minimize their vulnerability to attacks from the metacomputer level. We present the Legion security architecture, a flexible, adaptable framework for solving the metacomputing security problem. We demonstrate that this framework is sufficiently flexible to implement a wide range of security mechanisms and high-level policies.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationHigh-Performance Computing and Networking - 7th International Conference, HPCN Europe 1999, Proceedings
EditorsPeter Sloot, Alfons Hoekstra, Bob Hertzberger, Marian Bubak
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages370-380
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)3540658211, 9783540658214
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999
Event7th International Conference on High-Performance Computing and Networking, HPCN Europe 1999 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: Apr 12 1999Apr 14 1999

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1593
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other7th International Conference on High-Performance Computing and Networking, HPCN Europe 1999
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period4/12/994/14/99

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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