TCP-AuthN

An approach to dynamic firewall operation in grid environments

verfasst von: Jan Wiebelitz, Christopher Kunz, Stefan Piger, Christian Grimm
Abstract: Grid computing provides users with transparent access to substantial compute and storage resources. Up to now the main focus lay in the development of Grid infrastructures and the development of services providing access to Grid resources. This leads to a negligence of security aspects, which, for example, leads to the recommendation of open wide port ranges on firewalls protecting the Grid resources. In this paper we present an approach for a dynamic firewall operation facilitated by a strong inline authentication for every TCP connection. The presented approach, which is based on X.509 certificates and public-key encryption uses TCP segments exchanged during the TCP three-way handshake between the client and the server to transport user authentication information. Firewalls on the path use this authentication information to authorize the connection. To distinguish the authentication information in the TCP segments from application data a new TCP option tcpauthn is introduced.
Organisationseinheit(en): Leibniz Universität IT Services (LUIS)
Typ: Aufsatz in Konferenzband
Seiten: 481-486
Anzahl der Seiten: 6
Publikationsdatum: 2009
Publikationsstatus: Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed: Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete: Computernetzwerke und -kommunikation, Elektrotechnik und Elektronik
Elektronische Version(en): https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNS.2009.35 (Zugang: Unbekannt)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{84303ef6f4434cdc9297919d85128c66,
title = "TCP-AuthN: An approach to dynamic firewall operation in grid environments",
abstract = "Grid computing provides users with transparent access to substantial compute and storage resources. Up to now the main focus lay in the development of Grid infrastructures and the development of services providing access to Grid resources. This leads to a negligence of security aspects, which, for example, leads to the recommendation of open wide port ranges on firewalls protecting the Grid resources. In this paper we present an approach for a dynamic firewall operation facilitated by a strong inline authentication for every TCP connection. The presented approach, which is based on X.509 certificates and public-key encryption uses TCP segments exchanged during the TCP three-way handshake between the client and the server to transport user authentication information. Firewalls on the path use this authentication information to authorize the connection. To distinguish the authentication information in the TCP segments from application data a new TCP option tcpauthn is introduced.",
author = "Jan Wiebelitz and Christopher Kunz and Stefan Piger and Christian Grimm",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/ICNS.2009.35",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780769535869",
series = "Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Networking and Services, ICNS 2009",
pages = "481--486",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Networking and Services, ICNS 2009",
note = "5th International Conference on Networking and Services, ICNS 2009 ; Conference date: 20-04-2009 Through 25-04-2009",
}