Endorsements, licensing, and insurance for distributed system services

Clients in a distributed system place their confidence in many servers, and servers themselves rely on other servers for file storage, authentication, authorization, and payment. When a system spans administrative boundaries it becomes harder to assess the security and competence of potential service providers. This paper examines the issue of confidence in large distributed systems.

# Access Control and Trust # Social Sciences # Distributed systems and fault tolerance # Computer Science # Advanced Authentication Protocols Security

Gennady Medvinsky, Charlie Lai, Clifford Neuman (1994). "Endorsements, licensing, and insurance for distributed system services". ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). https://doi.org/10.1145/191177.191215