SeCol: Security for Collaborative Applications using

Group Communication and Publish/Subscribe Systems

 

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News               About SeCol              Staff                Publications               Presentations             For More Information              

 

News

 

á      9/28/2005        Paper on Secure Pub/Sub systems submitted to IJEBR

á      03/24/2005      SeCol to receiving funding under the ONR NCASSR Program for SepÕ05 – AugÕ06

á      01/20/2005      Pub/Sub SAC paper invited for journal submission

á      11/11/2004      TASK key management paper accepted at ICNÕ05

á      10/19/2004      Pub/Sub security paper accepted at ACM SACÕ05

 

About SeCol

 

Large-scale distributed systems such as Group Communication Systems (GCSs) and Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) enable military and commercial collaborative applications in which users and other end-entities process data and messages without concern for message transmission and delivery. Current solutions for providing security for these systems use trusted servers, which consequently bear significant trust liabilities of maintaining confidentiality, integrity, and authentication of messages and keys. In this research program we will develop, integrate and test new security protocols and tools for large collaborative applications that minimize trust liabilities in servers supporting these applications.

 

Our initial efforts have resulted in a new group key management scheme and a publish/subscribe security system that minimize trust liability in group communication and publish/subscribe systems respectively. We are in the process of developing prototypes of our solutions and conducting a scalability analysis.

 

 

Staff

 

á      Raja Afandi (Former member), CS, UIUC

á      Jim Basney (Former member), NCSA

á      Rakesh Bobba, NCSA

á      Rafael Bonilla (Former Member), NCSA

á      Weiting Cao, NCSA

á      Hyung-Seok Hahm (Former member), NCSA

á      Himanshu Khurana (PI), NCSA

á      Radostina Koleva, NCSA

á      Adam Slagell (Former member), NCSA

 

Publications

 

á      Himanshu Khurana and Radostina Koleva. Scalable Security and Accounting Services for Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems. To appear in the International Journal of E-Business Research, 2006.

á      Himanshu Khurana, Rafael Bonilla, Adam Slagell, Raja Afandi, Hyung-Seok Hahm, and Jim Basney. Scalable Group Key Management with Partially Trusted Controllers . In the International Conference on Networking, Reunion Island, April 2005. Full Length Manuscript, November 2004.

á      Himanshu Khurana. Scalable Security and Accounting Services for Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems. In proceedings of the E-Commerce Track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2005.

 

Presentations

 

á      Himanshu Khurana, Minimizing Trust Liabilities in Secure Messaging Infrastructures, CERIAS Seminar, Purdue University, August 2005.

á      Himanshu Khurana, SeCol: Secure Collaborative Applications Using Group Communication and Publish Subscribe Systems, NCASSR PI Meeting, Arlington VA, August 2005.

á      Adam Slagell, Scalable Group Key Management with Partially Trusted Controllers, ICN, Reunion Island, April 2005.

á      Himanshu Khurana, Scalable Security and Accounting Services for Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems . ACM SAC, Santa Fe, March 2005.

 

For More Information

 

For more information on this project please contact Himanshu Khurana at hkhurana at ncsa dot uiuc dot edu