Security Enhancement of Java Remote Method Invocation

Authors:
Dominik Zalewski
Affiliations:
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Venue:
DEPCOS-RELCOMEX '06 Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependability of Computer Systems
Year:
2006

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Dissection of the internal workings of the RMI, possible enhancements and implementing authentication in standard Java RMI

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations

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Abstract

Java Remote Method Invocation is an implementation of Remote Procedure Call in object oriented environment. However its security level can be regarded as very low. By using additional technologies: Kerberos and Java Authentication and Authorization Service, one can greatly improve Java Remote Method Invocation security. These enhancements are called Secure RMI. It is shown that by using Secure RMI three conditions of secure communication can be satisfied, namely: integrity, confidentiality and authentication. In modern computer systems there is also a requirement for authorization. It is handled by Secure RMI as well. Finally, performance of system build by using Secure RMI is studied.