A survey of distributed capability file systems and their application to cloud environments

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited === This thesis considers distributed capability systems as a potential solution to securing data in cloud environments. The U.S. Navy, Intelligence Community and Department of Defense have begun a significant investment to leverage scalable, di...

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Main Author: Jatho, Edgar W., III
Other Authors: Denning, Peter
Published: Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/43930
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spelling ndltd-nps.edu-oai-calhoun.nps.edu-10945-439302015-06-02T16:18:59Z A survey of distributed capability file systems and their application to cloud environments Jatho, Edgar W., III Denning, Peter Gondree, Mark Computer Science Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited This thesis considers distributed capability systems as a potential solution to securing data in cloud environments. The U.S. Navy, Intelligence Community and Department of Defense have begun a significant investment to leverage scalable, distributed cloud-based solutions for information sharing. We believe capability systems suggest a promising direction for new platforms, a bold approach drawing directly from mature ideas first explored in the 60s and 70s. We survey the properties and limits of existing distributed capability file systems, as a step toward understanding how capability-based designs might serve cloud-scale systems. We highlight some lessons learned in our observations and find that, while no existing capability-based distributed file system demonstrates all of the desirable security traits observed of smaller-scale capability systems, it should be possible to define and create one that does, using capabilities carefully designed to obey a set of known properties. 2014-12-05T20:10:23Z 2014-12-05T20:10:23Z 2014-09 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10945/43930 This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. As such, it is in the public domain, and under the provisions of Title 17, United States Code, Section 105, it may not be copyrighted. Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School
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description Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited === This thesis considers distributed capability systems as a potential solution to securing data in cloud environments. The U.S. Navy, Intelligence Community and Department of Defense have begun a significant investment to leverage scalable, distributed cloud-based solutions for information sharing. We believe capability systems suggest a promising direction for new platforms, a bold approach drawing directly from mature ideas first explored in the 60s and 70s. We survey the properties and limits of existing distributed capability file systems, as a step toward understanding how capability-based designs might serve cloud-scale systems. We highlight some lessons learned in our observations and find that, while no existing capability-based distributed file system demonstrates all of the desirable security traits observed of smaller-scale capability systems, it should be possible to define and create one that does, using capabilities carefully designed to obey a set of known properties.
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