A Fault-Tolerant Secure CORBA Store using Fragmentation-Redundancy-Scattering

Cristina Silva and Luís Rodrigues

Selected sections of this report will be published in the Proceedings of the ECOOP Workshop on Distributed Object Security, In Association with 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Brussels, Belgium, July 20, 1998.

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a secure and fault-tolerant CORBA datastore based on the Fragmentation-Redundancy-Scattering (FRS) technique. This technique consists in fragmenting the confidential data and scattering the resulting fragments across several archives. The FRS-Datastore service interacts with the other CORBA services, in particular with the Persistence, Security and Trading services. One of our goals is to gain a better understanding how the FRS technique can be applied to an open environment prone to crashes and network partitions and using exclusively standard invocations.

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Luís Rodrigues