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Abstract : |
Abstract. Active Networks promise greater exibility than current networks, but threaten safety and security by virtue of their programmability. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a security architecture for the active network PLANet [HMA + 99]. Security is obtained with a two-level architecture that combines a functionally restricted packet language, PLAN [HKM + 98], with an environment of general-purpose service routines governed by trust management [BFL96]. In particular, we employ a technique which expands or contracts a packet's service environment based on its level of privilege, termed namespace-based security. As an application of our security architecture, we outline the design and implementation of an active-network rewall. We nd that the addition of the rewall imposes an approximately 34 % latency overhead and as little as a 6.7 % space overhead to incoming packets. 1, |
