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A Java Middleware for Guaranteeing Privacy of Distributed Tuple Spaces

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Scientific Engineering for Distributed Java Applications (FIDJI 2002)

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Abstract

The tuple space communication model, such as the one used in Linda, provides great flexibility for modeling concurrent, distributed and mobile processes. In a distributed setting with mobile agents, particular attention is needed for protecting sites and information. We have designed and developed a Java middleware, Klava, for implementing distributed tuple spaces and operations to support agent interaction and mobility. In this paper, we extend the Klava middleware with cryptographic primitives that enable encryption and decryption of tuple fields. We describe the actual implementation of the new primitives and provide a few examples. The proposed extension is general enough to be applied to similar Java frameworks using multiple distributed tuples spaces possibly dealing with mobility.

This work has been partially supported by EU within the FET - Global Computing initiative project MIKADO IST-2001-32222, by MIUR project NAPOLI and by Microsoft project NAPI. The funding bodies are not responsible for any use that might be made of the results presented here.

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  1. Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università di Firenze, Via Lombroso 6/17, 50134, Firenze, Italy

    Lorenzo Bettini & Rocco De Nicola

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  1. Départment d’Informatique Appliquée, Institut Supérieur de Technologie, 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, 1359, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Nicolas Guelfi

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Bettini, L., De Nicola, R. (2003). A Java Middleware for Guaranteeing Privacy of Distributed Tuple Spaces. In: Guelfi, N., Astesiano, E., Reggio, G. (eds) Scientific Engineering for Distributed Java Applications. FIDJI 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2604. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36520-6_16

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