Distributed Security Research Group

Distributed Systems Department
Computational Research Divison
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

We are exploring the security requirements of distributed computing and colloboration environments. One of our goals is to provide prototypes of distributed access control solutions that will reflect the distributed nature of the stakeholders of shared distributed resources. For details on our approach see Overview.

Projects

Akenti	Certificate-based Authorization mechanism
Secure and Reliable Group Communication	Investigating protocols for secure group memberships and developing a prototype using Akenti access control to determine who may be allowed to join a group.
National Fusion Collaboratory	A SciDAC collaboratory which is deploying Akenti security tools.

People

Abdelilah Essiari

Mary R. Thompson

Keith Beattie

Workshops

DOE ER/DP security workshops

Publications

Publications, Reports and Presentations
"Research & Development Priorities for Communications and Information Infrastructure Assurance"

(Acrobat PDF format)

This report outlines the research and development priorities required over the next five years in order to assure that the communications infrastructure (the public switched network and the global Internet) and information infrastructure (the millions of computer systems that store, organize, and analyze the information on which our society increasingly relies) are as secure as possible from potential attacks and/or natural disasters.

Past Projects

Network Bandwidth Quality of Service (STARS)	Exploring and building a prototype for access controlled reservations for guaranteed-bandwidth network connections.
Anchor Toolkit	A system for Secure Mobile Agents
DOE Diesel Collaboratory pilot	A DOE2000 Collaboratory pilot which deployed Akenti security tools.

Project Management

Distibuted Security Architecture Project

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