Efficient and Secure Information Sharing in Distributed, Collaborative Environments

Partha Dasgupta, Vijay Karamcheti and Zvi M. Kedem
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Partha Dasgupta: Arizona State University, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Vijay Karamcheti: New York University, Dept. of Computer Science
Zvi M. Kedem: New York University, Dept. of Computer Science

A chapter in Communication-Based Systems, 2000, pp 147-162 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Collaboration enables a set of partners to work together while sharing information, resources, and capabilities in a controlled and accountable fashion. The partners themselves are organizations composed of people, departments, computational entities, and agents who perform tasks consistent with the internal rules of their organization. This paper presents a framework for managing some aspects of collaborations, both within and across organizations, between agents and resources or services, while guaranteeing that these interactions are secure, efficient, and satisfy specified access constraints. It describes some current and planned activities in a joint project by the coauthors at Arizona State University and New York University. We view collaborative operations in terms of the direct interactions between computations and services. To support collaborative operations we will rely on several techniques, including transitive delegation, cryptographic file systems, capacity sandboxing, reverse sandboxing, and fine-grained access control. These techniques facilitate scalable authentication and revocable authorization of agent computations even when they span resources of different organizations. In addition, they improve overall efficiency by permitting migration of computations to, and caching of services in, partly trusted environments of another organization.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9608-4_12

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