Collaborative group membership and access control for JXTA

fYear

2008

fDate

6-10 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

159

Lastpage

166

Abstract

This paper presents a proposal for group membership and access control services for JXTA, both based on the principle of self-organization and collaboration of peer group members. The need for collaboration strengthens the resistance against free riding and eases management of revocation data. The proposal prioritizes group autonomy and makes use of the concepts of web of trust and small world phenomenon in order to achieve its ends, distancing itself from approaches based on centralized PKI models or trusted third parties external to the group. It also offers an alternative to the basic group membership services distributed with the JXTA platform implementations.

Keywords

authorisation; formal specification; groupware; peer-to-peer computing; public key cryptography; JXTA specification framework; access control; centralized PKI models; collaborative group membership; group autonomy; peer group members; Access control; Access protocols; Authentication; Collaboration; Graphical user interfaces; Guidelines; Identity management systems; Peer to peer computing; Proposals; Testing; Access control; JXTA; Java; distributed systems; group membership; peer-to-peer; security; web of trust;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems Software and Middleware and Workshops, 2008. COMSWARE 2008. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1796-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1797-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMSWA.2008.4554399

Filename

4554399