Title:

A Secure Plan

Author(s):

Hicks, Michael W.
Keromytis, Angelos D.

Date:

1999

Type:

Articles

Department:

Computer Science

Permanent URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14003

Part Number:

1653

Book/Journal Title:

Active networks: First International Working Conference, IWAN'99, Berlin, Germany, June 30-July 2, 1999: proceedings

Book Author:

Covaci, Stefan

Publisher:

Springer

Publisher Location:

New York

Abstract:

Active Networks promise greater flexibility than current networks, but threaten safety and security by virtue of their programmability. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a security architecture for the active network PLANet [HMA+99]. Security is obtained with a two-level architecture that combines a functionally restricted packet language, PLAN [HKM+98], with an environment of general-purpose service routines governed by trust management [BFL96]. In particular, we employ a technique which expands or contracts a packet’s service environment based on its level of privilege, termed namespace-based security. As an application of our security architecture, we outline the design and implementation of an active-network firewall. We find that the addition of the firewall imposes an approximately 34% latency overhead and as little as a 6.7% space overhead to incoming packets.

Subject(s):

Computer science

DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48507-0_28

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