3rd International ICST Symposium on Information Assurance and Security

Research Article

A Secure Storage Service for the gLite Middleware

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/IAS.2007.33,
        author={Diego  Scardaci and Giordano  Scuderi},
        title={A Secure Storage Service for the gLite Middleware},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Symposium on  Information Assurance and Security},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={IAS},
        year={2007},
        month={9},
        keywords={Availability  Concurrent computing  Data security  Distributed computing  Grid computing  Information security  Middleware  Monitoring  Resource management  Secure storage},
        doi={10.1109/IAS.2007.33}
    }
    
  • Diego Scardaci
    Giordano Scuderi
    Year: 2007
    A Secure Storage Service for the gLite Middleware
    IAS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2007.33
Diego Scardaci1,*, Giordano Scuderi1,*
  • 1: INFN Catania, UNICO S.R.L.
*Contact email: diego.scardaci@ct.infn.it, gscuderi@unicosrl.it

Abstract

The Secure Storage service for the gLite middleware provides users with a set of tools to store in a secure way and in an encrypted format confidential data (e.g. medical or financial data) on the grid storage elements. The data stored though provided tools will be accessible and readable by authorized users only. Moreover, it solves the insider abuse problem preventing also the administrators of the storage elements to access the confidential data in a clear format. The service has been designed and developed for the grid middleware of the EGEE Project, gLite, in the context of the TriGrid VL Project