Title :
Distributed audit with secure remote procedure calls
Author :
Tsai, Chii-Ren ; Gligor, Virgil D.
Author_Institution :
VDG Inc., Chevy Chase, MD, USA
Abstract :
The authors have designed and implemented an experimental secure remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism and an RPC interface for a distributed audit mechanism running on AIX version 3 on the RISC System/6000. Based on the secure RPC mechanism and the network file system, the authors have designed and implemented a high-level, protocol-transparent interface for a distributed audit mechanism with centralized control. In addition, they implemented a user-friendly interface for distributed audit with Motif widgets on the X Window system. It is noted that the present experimental secure RPC shows a fairly simple alternative to building secure RPCs with an authentication protocol without modifying the RPC runtime and interface. Using RPCs not only significantly reduces the efforts for programming, but also bypasses several technical details such as replayed transactions, which are taken care of by RPC runtime
Keywords :
auditing; message authentication; protocols; remote procedure calls; user interfaces; AIX version 3; Motif widgets; RISC System/6000; RPC interface; X Window system; authentication protocol; centralized control; distributed audit mechanism; experimental secure RPC; experimental secure remote procedure call; network file system; protocol-transparent interface; replayed transactions; secure RPC mechanism; user-friendly interface; Authentication; Centralized control; Computer networks; Identity-based encryption; Programming profession; Protocols; Reduced instruction set computing; Runtime; Sun; Trademarks;
Conference_Titel :
Security Technology, 1991. Proceedings. 25th Annual 1991 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0120-X
DOI :
10.1109/CCST.1991.202209
