摘要:
A method for connecting a first communication system with a third communications system, by passing through a second communications system, is disclosed. A first frame is received from the first communications system, where the first frame has a multicast address as a destination address. The multicast address requires the frame to be transmitted onto the second multicast address is translated into a functional address. The functional address is written into a second frame, and the second frame is transmitted onto the second communications system. A station receiving the second frame translates the functional address into a multicast address and writes the multicast address into the destination address field of a third frame, and transmits the third frame onto the third communications system.
摘要:
A connection apparatus for connecting a first communication system with a second communication system and a third communication system. A first frame is received from the first communication system, where the first frame has a multicast address as a destination address, and where the destination address requires the first frame to be transmitted onto the second communication system. The multicast address is translated into a functional address, and the functional address is written into a second frame transmitted onto the second communication system. The second frame is received and is transmitted onto a third communication system, and the functional address is translated into a multicast address for the third communication system, and the multicast address is written into a destination field of the frame as it is transmitted onto the third communication system. The second communication system may be a token ring system based upon an IEEE 802.5 standard, and the functional address may be written into a DSAP field and into a PROTOCOL TYPE field of an 802.5 Standard frame.
摘要:
A device and related method for coupling segments of an extended local area network (LAN) in such a way that message traffic employing inter-network protocols such as TCP/IP will be handled without the difficulties usually associated with bridges, and without the complexity and expense of full IP router capability. The device operates like a bridge for non-TCP/IP traffic. For TCP/IP traffic it operates in a bridge-like manner but maintains a database associating extended LAN segment addresses with port numbers in the device, so that packets can be automatically forwarded over a spanning tree connecting the network segments. A host computer in any network segment can address others in different network segments of the extended LAN as though all were in a single LAN. The device of the invention functions to block the flow of ARP messages and to generate ARP replies that render the device of the invention transparent to hosts within the extended LAN. The device is also transparent to true IP routers, which may still be used to effect communication with points outside the extended LAN.
摘要:
Some embodiments provide a system to assure enhanced security, e.g., by assuring that information is not revealed over a covert channel. All communications between a source system and a destination system may pass through an intermediate system. In some embodiments, the intermediate system may perform an additional level of blinding to ensure that the source system does not covertly reveal information to the destination system. In some embodiments, the intermediate system may request the source system to perform a modification operation, and then check if the source system performed the modification operation. Examples of the modification operation include a blinding operation and a cryptographic hashing operation.
摘要:
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates making the files permanently unreadable. During operation, the system encrypts a file with a key K at a file manager and then stores the encrypted file in non-volatile storage. Next, the system stores the key K in a key database located in volatile storage at the file manager. The system then encrypts the key database, and stores the encrypted key database in non-volatile storage. Additionally, a key that can be used to decrypt the encrypted key database is maintained by a key manager, and is not maintained in non-volatile form by the file manager. In this way, if the file manager crashes, losing the contents of its volatile storage, the file manager must interact with the key manager to decrypt the encrypted key database.
摘要:
A method and system is disclosed for utilizing an ephemeral encryption or decryption agent so as to preclude access by the ephemeral encryption agent or decryption agent, respectively, to the information being ephemerally encrypted or decrypted. To preclude access by the ephemeral encryption agent, a blinding function is applied to the information prior to forwarding such information to the encryption agent for encryption. To preclude access to the information by the ephemeral decryption agent, a blinding function is applied to the encrypted information prior to forwarding the encrypted information to the decryption agent for decryption. Once the information has been returned, the information is unblinded, leaving an encrypted or decrypted message respectively.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for utilizing a non-secure file server for storing and sharing data securely only among clients and groups authorized to read and modify the data. A first client that desires to store data on the file server encrypts the data with a first encryption key having an associated first decryption key. The client encrypts the first decryption key with a second encryption key having an associated second decryption key known to the first client. Additionally, the first decryption key is encrypted with respective encryption keys of other clients or groups intended to have access to the data stored on the file server and the clients and groups retain their respective decryption keys. All of the encrypted first decryption keys are stored within an access control list in association with the encrypted data on the non-secure file server. In response to an indication that the data should be transmitted to one of the clients, the file server returns to the client the encrypted data along with at least the applicable encrypted first decryption key for the respective client. The client is able to decrypt the first decryption key and decrypt the data using the unencrypted first decryption key. The data may then be modified and securely stored on the file server as described above. The first decryption key may also be encrypted with a second encryption key having a second decryption key known to members of a group or a group server. The first encryption key encrypted with the group second encryption key is stored in the access control list so that group members can obtain access to the encrypted data stored on the file server.
摘要:
A data authentication system that at the sender produces for a plurality of data packets a plurality of “integrity checks” by selecting an integrity function from a family or set of integrity functions, selecting a number of bytes from a given packet and manipulating the bytes in accordance with the selected integrity function to produce the integrity check. The system then selects corresponding bytes or bytes that are offset from the corresponding bytes from a next packet and produces a next associated integrity check using the same or another selected integrity check function, and so forth. The system encrypts the integrity checks associated with the plurality of data packets using, for example, a shared secret key, and produces an integrity block. The system then sends the encrypted integrity block and the data packets to the intended recipients. A recipient decrypts the integrity block using the shared secret key and reproduces the integrity checks. It then uses the integrity checks to authenticate the associated data packets by manipulating selected data bytes in accordance with selected integrity check functions. The recipient thus authenticates a plurality of data packets by performing a single decryption operation and a plurality of relatively fast integrity check operations using a selection of integrity check functions that are unknown to an interloper. The sender may also include in a transmission one or more extraneous, or “chaff,” data packets, which are data packets that intentionally fail the associated integrity checks. The sender may, for example, include in a transmission multiple sets of packets with the same sequence numbers. The recipient readily determines which of the packets with the same sequence numbers are valid using the appropriate integrity check. However, an interloper who cannot decipher the encrypted integrity block cannot as easily determine which of the packets are valid, and thus, cannot determine which packets to alter and/or how to alter these packets without detection by the integrity checks.
摘要:
To ensure uniqueness of a router identifier in routing protocol messages (RPMs), a router determines whether an identifier IDR in received RPMs is the same as an identifier IDS in RPMs originated by the router. For RPMs having the same identifier, sequence information such as a sequence number is compared with sequence information in the RPM most recently originated by the router, the comparison indicating whether the received RPM appears to have been originated more recently. The rate at which such RPMs are being received is monitored. If the rate is above a predetermined threshold rate, the router infers that another router is using the same identifier, and selects a different identifier for subsequent use. The sequence information preferably includes a checksum calculated over contents of the message including a random number, to ensure proper flooding of each message to other routers that may be using a duplicate identifier.
摘要翻译:为了确保路由器标识符在路由协议消息(RPM)中的唯一性,路由器确定接收的RPM中的标识符ID R SUB>是否与RPM中的标识符ID S SUB>相同 由路由器发起。 对于具有相同标识符的RPM,将诸如序列号的序列信息与路由器最近发起的RPM中的序列信息进行比较,该比较指示接收的RPM是否最近似乎已经发起。 监视这些RPM的接收速率。 如果速率高于预定阈值速率,则路由器推断另一个路由器正在使用相同的标识符,并选择不同的标识符供后续使用。 序列信息优选地包括通过包括随机数的消息的内容计算的校验和,以确保每个消息适当地泛滥到可能使用重复标识符的其他路由器。
摘要:
An embodiment consistent with the present invention includes a method and apparatus for forming a multicast repair tree. The methods perform by a data processor and comprises the steps of determining, for each of a plurality of potential heads in a multicast group, a ranking value associated with the potential head; advertising, by the potential heads to a plurality of potential receivers; prioritizing, by a potential receiver, the ranking values from the potential heads; and binding, by a potential receiver to the head having the highest ranking value, thereby forming a group of which the potential receiver,is a member and the potential head is the head. The ranking values may include “able”, “unable”, “willing”, and “reluctant.” The ranking value of a potential head determines in accordance with a static or a dynamic configuration. Ranking values determine dynamically based on ranges of system resource levels such as memory and available processor resources.