Fine-Grain Configurability for Secure Communication (2000)
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@TECHREPORT{Hiltunen00fine-grainconfigurability,
author = {Matti A. Hiltunen and Sumita Jaiprakash and Richard D. Schlichting and Carlos A. Ugarte},
title = {Fine-Grain Configurability for Secure Communication},
institution = {},
year = {2000}
}
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Abstract
Current solutions for providing communication security in network applications allow customization of certain security attributes and techniques, but in limited ways and without the benefit of a single unifying framework. Here, the design of a highly-customizable extensible service called SecComm is described in which attributes such as authenticity, privacy, integrity, and non-repudiation can be customized in arbitrary ways. With SecComm, applications can open secure communication connections in which only those attributes selected from among a wide range of possibilities are enforced, and are enforced using the strength or technique desired. SecComm has been implemented using Cactus, a system for building configurable communication services. In Cactus, different properties and techniques are implemented as software modules called micro-protocols that interact using an event-driven execution paradigm. This non-hierarchical design approach has a high degree of flexibility, ye...
