The SecureRing protocols for securing group communication

Author

Kihlstrom, Kim Potter ; Moser, L.E. ; Melliar-Smith, P.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

317

Abstract

The SecureRing group communication protocols provide reliable ordered message delivery and group membership services despite Byzantine faults such as might be caused by modifications to the programs of a group member following illicit access to, or capture of, a group member. The protocols multicast messages to groups of processors within an asynchronous distributed system and deliver messages in a consistent total order to all members of the group. They ensure that correct members agree on changes to the membership, that correct processors are eventually included in the membership, and that processors that exhibit detectable Byzantine faults are eventually excluded from the membership. To provide these message delivery and group membership services, the protocols make use of an unreliable Byzantine fault detector

Keywords

distributed processing; security of data; transport protocols; Byzantine fault detector; SecureRing; asynchronous distributed system; communication protocols; group communication; group membership services; message delivery; multicast messages; reliable ordered message delivery; roup membership; Access protocols; Electrical capacitance tomography; Fault detection; Government; Hip; Laboratories; Multicast protocols; Protection; Read only memory; Terminology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1998., Proceedings of the Thirty-First Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kohala Coast, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8255-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1998.656294

Filename

656294