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Authentication in distributed systems

Butler Lampson, Martı́n Abadi, Michael T. Burrows, Edward P. Wobber • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (1991)

We describe a theory of authentication and a system that implements it. Our theory is based on the notion of principal and a "speaks for" relation between principals. A simple principal either has a name or is a communication channel; a com...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/121132.121160

Constructing adaptive software in distributed systems

Wen-Ke Chen, Matti A. Hiltunen, Richard D. Schlichting • Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems/Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (2002)

Adaptive software that can react to changes in the execution environment or user requirements by switching algorithms at run time is powerful yet difficult to implement, especially in distributed systems. This paper describes a software arc...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/icdsc.2001.918994

The right type of trust for distributed systems

Audun Jøsang • New Security Paradigms Workshop (1996)

Research in information security has traditionally focused on where to place or how to propagate trust.In that sense, a cyptographic algorithm or protocol is simply a mechanism to transfer trust from where it exists to where it is needed.Th...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/304851.304877

Controlling chaos in distributed systems

Tad Hogg, Bernardo A. Huberman • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics (1991)

A simple and robust procedure for freezing out chaotic behavior in systems composed of interacting agents making decisions based on imperfect and delayed information is described. It is based on a reward mechanism whereby the relative numbe...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/21.135679

Maintaining the time in a distributed system

Keith Marzullo, Susan S. Owicki • ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) (1983)

To a client of a loosely-coupled distributed system, one of the simplest services is a time service. Usually the client simply requests the time from any subset of the time servers making up the service, and uses the first reply. Issues tha...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/800221.806730