Decentralized information flow control on a cluster
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Author(s)
Cliffer, Natan Tsvi Cohen
Advisor(s)
Robert Tappan Morris.
Date Issued
2007
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Information flow control security models can prevent programs from divulging sensitive information in unexpected ways. There has been significant work on tracking information flow between processes in the same computer at the operating system level. I present a modification to the Flume information flow control system for OpenBSD that allows information flow to be tracked between programs on different computers, as long as the system software on all involved computers is maintained by the same trusted entity. This allows the benefits of Flume to be applied to computer systems that take the cluster approach to scaling.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-54).
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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