摘要:
A method, apparatus and computer instructions for handling propagation of custom tokens without using Java™ serialization. A service provider may plug in a first login module to add a marker token to a subject for later use by an application at run time. The marker token is then serialized by the mechanism of the present invention by invoking a get bytes method on the token. The present invention then propagates the token downstream if the token is marked forwardable. At a target server, a second login module may be plugged in to deserialize a byte array from a list of tokens and perform custom operation on the byte array retrieved from a token holder.
摘要:
State management (cookie) data is encrypted so that access control data included in the cookie is unable to be modified by the user. A hashing algorithm is performed using various fields in the cookie data and the hash value is encrypted. The hash value is combined with other data such as the user identifier and a time stamp and encrypted to form a cookie value. When a request is received, the cookie data is checked. If the token value is not in the server's cache then the token is authenticated facilitating movement of the client between servers. If the cookie does not exist or is timed out, then the user is authenticated using traditional means.
摘要:
A method and system for providing a declarative trust association model that formalizes the way trust is established and requires corresponding authentication information to be presented in a standard format. Consequently, the application server may provide a guaranteed level of protection. The mechanism of the present invention provides a framework that allows an application server to enforce a trust evaluation and allows reverse proxy security server to assert a client's security identity, as well as other client security credential information. A known trust association interceptor model is extended to allow the reverse proxy security server to assert the authenticated user's security attributes. Such security attributes include, for example, group information, authentication strength, and location (i.e., where does the user enter the request, intranet vs. internet, IP address, etc.,). The security attributes can be used in making authorization decisions.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for preventing rogue implementations of a security-sensitive class interface are provided. With the method and apparatus, a unique identifier (UID) is created by a server process when the server process is started. Anytime the server process, i.e. a server runtime environment, instantiates a new credential object following start-up of the server process, the encrypted UID is placed into a private field within the new credential object. In addition, the UID is encrypted and stored in a private class of the server runtime environment. A verification class is provided within the server runtime environment which includes one or more methods that receive the credential object as a parameter and return true or false as to the validity of the credential object. These one or more methods determine the validity of the credential object by retrieving the encrypted UID from the private class stored in the server runtime environment, decrypting the UID and comparing it to the decrypted UID stored in the private field of the credential object. If the two UIDs match, a determination is made that the credential object was created by the server runtime environment rather than a rogue application. If the two UIDs do not match, or if there is no UID in the credential object, then a false result will be returned by the verification class.
摘要:
A system and method for tracking user security credentials in a distributed computing environment. The security credentials of an authenticated user includes not just his unique user identifier, but also a set of security attributes such as the time of authentication, the location where the user is authenticated (i.e., intranet user v. internet user), the authentication strength, and so on. The security attributes are used in access control decisions. The same user can be given different authorization if he has a different security attribute value. Security credentials may be generated either by WebSphere security code or by third party security provider code. This invention stores the user credentials in a distributed cache and provides a system and method to compute the unique key based on the dynamic security credentials for cache lookup
摘要:
An extensible token framework is provided for identifying purpose and behavior of run time security objects. The framework includes a set of marker token interfaces, which extends from a default token interface. A service provider may implement one or more marker token interfaces for a Subject or a thread of execution. A service provider may also implement its own custom marker tokens to perform custom operations. The security infrastructure runtime recognizes behavior and purpose of run time security objects based on the marker or custom marker token interfaces the token implements and handles the security objects accordingly.
摘要:
A system and method is provided for reducing the complexity and improving the performance of enforcing security restrictions on the execution of program code in a runtime environment. In a preferred embodiment, units of executable code, such as methods or functions, are classified by “security level.” Code units belonging to a “trusted” security level may call any other code unit in the runtime environment, but other security levels are restricted in the code units they can call. In a preferred embodiment, the security levels are represented by corresponding permission objects. Each permission object that is associated with a particular security level includes a numerical value that denotes that security level. Security policies can be enforced with respect to caller and callee code units by comparing numerical values of corresponding permission objects. This security level scheme also improves runtime performance by making it unnecessary to check individually-defined permissions in many cases.
摘要:
Disclosed are novel methods for combating diseases characterized by deposition of amyloid. The methods generally rely on immunization against amyloidogenic proteins (proteins contributing to formation of amyloid) such as beta amyloid (Aβ). Immunization is preferably effected by administration of analogues of autologous amyloidogenic polypeptides, said analogues being capable of inducing antibody production against the autologous amyloidogenic polypeptides. Especially preferred as an immunogen is autologous Aβ which has been modified by introduction of one single or a few foreign, immunodominant and promiscuous T-cell epitopes while substantially preserving the majority of Aβ's B-cell epitopes. Also disclosed are nucleic acid vaccination against amyloidogenic polypeptides and vaccination using live vaccines as well as methods and means useful for the vaccination. Such methods and means include methods for identification of useful immunogenic analogues of the amyloidogenic proteins, methods for the preparation of analogues and pharmaceutical formulations, as well as nucleic acid fragments, vectors, transformed cells, polypeptides and pharmaceutical formulations.
摘要:
Disclosed are novel methods for combating diseases characterized by deposition of amyloid. The methods generally rely on immunization against amyloidogenic proteins (proteins contributing to formation of amyloid) such as beta amyloid (Aβ). Immunization is preferably effected by administration of analogues of autologous amyloidogenic polypeptides, said analogues being capable of inducing antibody production against the autologous amyloidogenic polypeptides. Especially preferred as an immunogen is autologous Aβ which has been modified by introduction of one single or a few foreign, immunodominant and promiscuous T-cell epitopes while substantially preserving the majority of Aβ's B-cell epitopes. Also disclosed are nucleic acid vaccination against amyloidogenic polypeptides and vaccination using live vaccines as well as methods and means useful for the vaccination. Such methods and means include methods for identification of useful immunogenic analogues of the amyloidogenic proteins, methods for the preparation of analogues and pharmaceutical formulations, as well as nucleic acid fragments, vectors, transformed cells, polypeptides and pharmaceutical formulations.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a secure caching technique for shared distributed caches. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: encrypting a key K to provide a secure key, the key K corresponding to a value to be stored in a cache; and storing the value in the cache using the secure key.