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Providing security to the Desktop Data Grid FORTH ICS (Greece)

CoreGRID: European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies. Providing security to the Desktop Data Grid FORTH ICS (Greece) Jesus Luna , Michail Flouris, Manolis Marazakis and Angelos Bilas

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Providing security to the Desktop Data Grid FORTH ICS (Greece)

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  1. CoreGRID: European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Providing security to the Desktop Data Grid FORTH ICS (Greece) Jesus Luna, Michail Flouris, Manolis Marazakis and Angelos Bilas April-2008

  2. Outline • Introduction • Desktop Data Grids • Methodology: • Security Analysis • Data Security Protocol • Analytical Results • Conclusions • Future Work European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

  3. Introduction • Desktop Grids, and in particular Volunteer Computing, are well-known for their computational power: • BOINC has approximately 316,000 volunteers, 558,000 nodes and 1,024 TeraFLOPS (24-hr average). (March-08) European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

  4. Desktop Data Grids • Nowadays the storage potential of Desktop Grids is also being considered: 7.74 PetaBytes @ 5.27 TeraBytes/sec. • Interesting initiatives are appearing, i.e. Storage@Home [IPDPS07] and RevStor. • However, from a data-centric point of view which are the security requirements of these novel Desktop Data Grids (DDG)? European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

  5. Methodology • Extrapolating our current security research (Data Grids) to the DDG: • Applied a data-centric security analysis framework. • Adapted the contributed data security protocol. • Obtained some analytical results about the stored data’s assurance. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

  6. AuthN/AuthZ Data I/O Data Security Analysis • Desktop Data Grid’s architecture: All Data I/O is initiated by the VSC Requests Data Data Staged for VSC Submits a Job European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

  7. Trusted Services High Volatility Heterogeneous SW, HW, Admin Stored Data may be Leaked, Changed or Destroyed Secure Channels Data Security Analysis • Security issues found with the analysis: Static propagation of Revocation Data European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

  8. Data Security Protocol • Based on three mechanisms to protect data stored at VSCs: • Symmetric cryptosystem: Provides confidentiality and integrity (hash and nonce) to the data at-rest. • Data fragmentation: Contrary to replication, provides data availability and confidentiality using a “m out-of n” IDA. • Quality of Security: Improves the IDA by distributing fragments to “secure” VSCs. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

  9. Quality of Security (QoSec) • VSCs are heterogeneous in every way: may join or leave anytime, may be compromised, etc. Therefore they provide different levels of assurance to stored fragments. • If this “QoSec” can be quantified to characterize each VSC, then a Client may request a minimum value to be fulfilled for storing his data. • Analogous to QoS (communication) and LoA (Grid AuthN). • Requirements: • A “security policy” with provisions relevant to data assurance (i.e. availability). • An evaluation methodology. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

  10. Evaluation Methodology: REM in-a-box • Step 0 – Policy Definition: Set of rules modeling the VSC’s behavior. • Step 1- Policy Formalization • Px=“RAID Level” • Px={No RAID, RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-5} • Card(Px)=4 • Step 2a – Security Matrix per-VSC • P(vsc)=“PC with RAID-1” • P(vsc)=(1,1,1,0) - vector per-provision • P(RAID-0) < P(RAID-1) < P(RAID-5) - Ordered relationship • M(vsc) is a matrix built from a set of P(vsc) - Security Policy • Step 2b - Evaluation technique: uses a metric criteria (i.e. Euclidean Distance) to compute a numeric QoSec relative to a reference Matrix (i.e. a Zero-matrix) European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

  11. QoSec: Analytical Results • As a proof of concept, we analyzed the relationship among QoSec and Data Assurance: • A first approach for the VSC’s security policy considered a subset of rules from a Certificate Policy (CP). • CPs from HellasGrid, CERN and IRISGrid were evaluated with REM. • Analyzed the distribution assurance for a dispersal algorithm μ[Mei03], but considering the introduced QoSec: European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

  12. QoSec: Analytical Results • QoSec(HellasGrid) = 4.47 • QoSec(CERN) = 6.00 • QoSec(IRISGrid) = 5.48 • QoSec(EUGridPMA) = 4.24 High QoSec= Better Data Assurance with smaller number of fragments Low QoSec= requires more fragments to achieve higher Data Assurance N=100 n=15 European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

  13. Conclusions • Desktop Grids offer an interesting option for storing data, however security implications of using untrusted clients need to be studied (among other factors!). • Based on our current work for the Data Grid, we analyzed the security of DDGs and proposed a protocol that if implemented at the Project Server, then may minimize key compromise while avoiding extra processing at the VSCs. • An analytical model has shown the relationship QoSec -> data assurance. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

  14. Future work • Definition of a comprehensive Security Policy, mostly focused on the VSC’s availability. • Client executing code directly on the data stored at the VSC. • Begin contact with EDGeS (Enabling Desktop Grids for eScience) http://www.edges-grid.eu/ European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

  15. Thank you for your attention! • Questions? • Jesus Luna • jluna@ics.forth.gr • jluna@cs.ucy.ac.cy European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

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