DHPC Talk DHPCT-027

Authenticated Transmission of Portable Code Objects in a Metacomputing Environment

Duncan Grove

Archived: 25 February 1999

Presented at International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'98), in Las Vegas, USA, 13-16 July 1998.
See also the accompanying technical paper.

Abstract

An important concern for scalable, wide-area distributed computing environments is the secure transmission and the storage and discovery of portable code objects. We describe a prototype working system which demonstrates software technology for digital signatures, resource description and database management of portable code. We discuss the issues for such a system and how the important features can be incorporated into a distributed computing environment such as our DISCWorld system. We show how portable Java byte-code code objects can be securely served to client programs from a database.

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