DocumentCode :
1977261
Title :
Applying fault-tolerance principles to security research
Author :
Bhargava, Anjali ; Bhargava, Bharat
Author_Institution :
TRW, Redondo Beach, CA, USA
fYear :
2001
fDate :
2001
Firstpage :
68
Lastpage :
69
Abstract :
There has been much focus on building secure distributed systems. The CERIAS center has been established at Purdue along with 14 other such centers in USA. We note that many of the ideas, concepts, algorithms being proposed in security have many common threads with reliability. We need to apply the science and engineering of reliability research to the research in security and vice versa. We briefly give some examples to illustrate the ideas. To increase reliability in distributed systems, the use of quorums allows the transactions to read and write replicas even if some replicas have failed or are unavailable. So the systems manage the replicas so that a forum can be formed in the presence of failures. To make systems secure against unauthorized access, one can use the reverse strategy of making it difficult to form quorums. All accesses require permission from a group of authorities who could coordinate to deny a yes majority vote
Keywords :
distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; security of data; adaptability; atomicity; authorities; availability; check points; consistency; durability; fault-tolerance principles; functional failure; intrusion detection; operational failures; quorums; reliable distributed systems; replicas; rollback; secure distributed systems; security research; service attacks; unauthorized access; Availability; Checkpointing; Data security; Distributed computing; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Permission; Reliability engineering; Voting; Yarn;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Reliable Distributed Systems, 2001. Proceedings. 20th IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
ISSN :
1060-9857
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1366-2
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/RELDIS.2001.969746
Filename :
969746
Link To Document :
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