Secure peer-to-peer networking: the JXTA example

Author

Yeager, William ; Williams, Joseph

Author_Institution

Planet Professional Services Group, Sun MicroSysterms Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

Volume

4

Issue

2

fYear

2002

Firstpage

53

Lastpage

57

Abstract

The JXTA framework´s key benefit is its ability to provide security via well-understood, trusted approaches. Likewise, JXTA´s transport protocol independence lets applications avoid the security breaches imposed by gateways or other network infrastructure. Project JXTA has now completed J2SE and J2ME MIDP implementations.The latter is for small-footprint devices like mobile phones. A C implementation is nearly completed. These three are edge-to-edge interoperable and thus will provide JXTA P2P functionality across the device space. At JavaOne 2002, held in San Francisco during March, developers demonstrated group instant messaging among mobile phones, laptops, and desktop systems with firewall traversal, using the JXTA protocols.An open-source framework, JXTA can accommodate centralized and decentralized certificate authorities for P2P networking

Keywords

computer networks; cryptography; distributed processing; protocols; security of data; J2ME; J2SE; JXTA; JXTA protocols; P2P; distributed computing; firewall traversal; peer-to-peer computing; transport protocol; Application software; Centralized control; Computer hacking; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Network servers; Open source software; Operating systems; Peer to peer computing; Videos;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

IT Professional

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1520-9202

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MITP.2002.1000461

Filename

1000461