BCS OOPS Specialist Group
6:30 pm Wednesday 4th December 2002
OOPS-165 - Current Trends in Research (8)
Coordinator and Chair - Jane Chandler, Portsmouth University
Featured Paper - A fault tolerant architecture for the evaluation and
verification of remote calls in Jini networking technology
Speaker - Nikolaos Papamichail, Middlesex University, School of Computing
Science
Venue - Logica plc, United Kingdom House (5th Floor), 180 Oxford Street, W1N
0DS (entrance in Great Titchfield Street)
Map - http://www.logica.com/img/map_lon.jpg
Sandwiches and Refreshments provided.
(Admission Free. No pre-registration required. See below.)
Jini networking technology represents an exciting paradigm in distributed
systems. Its elegant approach in computer networking possesses immense
advantages, but also generates security problems.
Extensive research has been undertaken and existing security methodologies
have been applied to provide a safe execution environment. However the
unique nature of Jini has made it hard for traditional security mechanisms
to be applied effectively. Part of the problem lies within the downloaded
code and in the lack of centralised control.
Current solutions are based on assumptions, therefore they are inadequate
for enforcing the security requirements of the system. We present the past
and current efforts in providing a secure environment and identify the flaws
in these security architectures. The goal of our research is to increase the
security of the Jini model without altering its initial characteristics.
We present our preliminary research efforts in providing an alternative,
fault tolerant security architecture that uses a trusted local verifier in
order to evaluate and certify the correctness of remote calls.
Nikolaos Papamichail [[log in to unmask]] is a Computer Science PhD
student at Middlesex University. He holds an MSc in Interactive Multimedia
and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Macedonia, Greece. He
is an active member of the Wireless Information Technology Research Centre
(WITRC). His research interests include Object Oriented methodologies,
Computer Security and Distributed Systems.
Normal monthly meetings are open to all - Admission Free. No
pre-registration required. Because of this policy we must reserve the right
to restrict entry if the venue reaches capacity.
OOPS Meetings Programme Committee:
Brian Saxby, Kingston University [[log in to unmask]]
Hedley Apperly, Aonix [[log in to unmask]]
Immo Hüneke, Psion Teklogix [[log in to unmask]]
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