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Apr 1, 2000
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Practical Security In Large-Scale Distributed Object Oriented Databases
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Andrew Hanushevsky
Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory
Speaker:
Andrew Hanushevsky
The BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is designed to perform a
high precision investigation of the decays of the B-meson produced from electron-positron
interactions. The experiment, started in April 1999, will generate approximately 200TB/year of data
for 10 years. All of the data will reside in Objectivity databases accessible via the Advanced
Mult-threaded Server (AMS). While most of the data is accessed via on-site computers, some is
remotely available to scientists at other installations. In either case, all of the data must be
protected from unauthorized modification. The sheer quantity of data together with distributed data
access requirements necessitates an extended security infrastructure not commonly found in object
oriented databases. The SLAC-designed Generic Authentication Protocol (GAP) provides this
infrastructure and has been incorporated by Objectivity into their database product.
This presentation describes the design of the security protocol used in Objectivity/DB
to authenticate users, the mechanism used to actually provide for proper authorization, and how the
protocol can handle various authentication models such as Kerberos and PGP.
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