Responsive Security for Stored Data

  • Authors:
  • Subramanian Lakshmanan;Mustaque Ahamad;H. Venkateswaran

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDCS '03 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We present the design of a distributed store that offersvarious levels of security guarantees while tolerating a limitednumber of nodes that are compromised by an adversary.The store uses secret sharing schemes to offer securityguarantees namely availability, confidentiality and integrity.However, a pure secret sharing scheme could sufferfrom performance problems and high access costs. Weintegrate secret sharing with replication for better performanceand to keep access costs low. The tradeoffs involvedbetween availability and access cost on one hand and confidentialityand integrity on the other are analyzed. Our systemdiffers from traditional approaches such as state machineor quorum based replication that have been developedto tolerate Byzantine failures. Unlike such systems, weaugment replication with secret sharing and demonstratethat such a hybrid scheme offers additional flexibility that isnot possible with replication alone.