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Escaping the Evils of Centralized Control with self-certifying pathnames (1998)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Mazières, David Eres, David Mazi Kaashoek, M. Frans |
| Description | People have long trusted central authorities to coordinate secure collaboration on local-area networks. Unfortunately, the Internet doesn't provide the kind of administrative structures individual organizations do. As such, users risk painful consequences if global, distributed systems rely on central authorities for security. Fortunately, security need not come at the price of centralized control. To prove it, we present SFS, a secure, global, decentralized file system permitting easy cross-administrative realm collaboration. With a simple idea, self-certifying pathnames, SFS lets users escape the evils of centralized control. 1 Introduction As distributed applications become increasingly prevalent, we must confront a serious danger: Future distributed infrastructures may, as a condition for security, subject their users to rigid, centralized control with stifling consequences. People collaborating across local-area networks usually work within the same organization, limiting the inc... |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Publisher Date | 1998-01-01 |
| Publisher Institution | In the Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGOPS European |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Distributed System Internet Doesn Painful Consequence Easy Cross-administrative Realm Collaboration Centralized Control Simple Idea Secure Collaboration Trusted Central Authority File System Local-area Network Central Authority Serious Danger Administrative Structure Individual Organization Self-certifying Pathnames |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
