System Software Research Group Security Research Projects

This work is funded by the National Security Agency, grant MDA 904-94-C-6113 contract NSA-1-5-20369.

Projects:

The following links lead to descriptions of all of the SSRG's security projects, including information on source distribution and free demos.

The JGSS package. This is a java package which implements the Generic Security Services API specified in RFC-1508.
Security Policy Representation Framework. This is a java framework of useful security-policy-representinf classes, which may be used to describe policies to interpreter-based security policy decision functions in operating system kernels or in policy-enforcing applications.

Papers:

Theron Tock's Masters Thesis: An Extensible Framework for Authentication and Delegation.

Technical Report: Active Capability: An Application Specific Security and Protection Model .

Security White Paper: Active Capability: A Unified Security Model for Supporting Mobile, Dynamic and Application Specific Delegation .

Workshop Paper: Mobile Computing, Security and Delegation , the International Workshop on Multi-Dimensional Mobile Communications, Nov 1994, Japan

Technical Report: Security, Delegation, and Extensibility .

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Please direct comments and questions to Tin Qian (tinq@cs.uiuc.edu), Zhaoyu Liu (zhaoyu@cs.uiuc.edu), or Tim Fraser (tfraser@cs.uiuc.edu)