The CRISIS wide area security architecture

  • Authors:
  • Eshwar Belani;Amin Vahdat;Thomas Anderson;Michael Dahlin

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley;Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle;Computer Science Department, University of Texas, Austin

  • Venue:
  • SSYM'98 Proceedings of the 7th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 7
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

This paper presents the design and implementation of a new authentication and access control system, called CRISIS. A goal of CRISIS is to explore the systematic application of a number of design principles to building highly secure systems, including: redundancy to eliminate single points of attack, caching to improve performance and availability over slow and unreliable wide area networks, fine-grained capabilities and roles to enable lightweight control of privilege, and complete local logging of all evidence used to make each access control decision. Measurements of a prototype CRISIS-enabled wide area file system show that in the common case CRISIS adds only marginal overhead relative to unprotected wide area accesses.