Secure File Sharing in JXTA Using Digital Signatures

Author

Skendaj, Erita ; Biba, Marenglen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of New York Tirana, Tirana, Albania

fYear

2012

fDate

4-6 July 2012

Firstpage

420

Lastpage

425

Abstract

This paper presents the development of a secure file sharing mechanism in JXTA, a universal platform independent Peer to Peer (P2P) environment. Digital Signatures are chosen as the tool for ensuring authenticity and integrity of shared files in a hybrid P2P environment. The application developed is based on JXSE, the Java implementation of JXTA and reuses CMS as an early realization of Content Management System by the community, but which does not support security out of the box. The contribution of this paper is a new security model for sharing files in CMS. In this paper, the design, implementation and evaluation of such model are presented, then conclusions are drawn and the windows for practical implementation are opened.

Keywords

Java; content management; digital signatures; peer-to-peer computing; CMS reuse; JXSE; JXTA; Java implementation; content management system; digital signature; hybrid P2P environment; secure file sharing; security model; shared file authenticity; shared file integrity; universal platform independent peer to peer environment; Authentication; Digital signatures; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Public key; Servers; JXTA; peer-to-peer; secure file sharing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), 2012 Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Palermo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1233-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISIS.2012.119

Filename

6245636