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The Starfish Project |  |
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The Starfish system is a new system currently under development that provides intrusion detection and intrusion tolerance for middleware applications operating in a distributed asynchronous system. The Starfish system contains a central, highly secure and tightly coupled "body." This body is augmented by "arms" that are less tightly coupled and that have less stringent security guarantees, each of which can be removed from the body if a significant security breach occurs. New arms can be "grown" as needed [1]. We are implementing Starfish module by module, beginning with the underlying group communication protocols, and in so doing are developing tools, techniques, and mechanisms that can be deployed in a wide range of survivable systems to increase the security, reliability, and quality of service provided. The group communication protocols Starblab and StarblabIT, a userspace file system StarblabFS, and a national surveillance application Staralert are described on our development page. We are subjecting our system to rigorous performance testing and measurement, and we are also developing applications to aid in the evaluation of our system and techniques. |
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[1] Starfish are known to have small bodies, out of which spring forth a varying number of arms, which break off when damaged. These arms subsequently heal and re-grow.
Starfish is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number 0534167 in the Cyber Trust Program.
Westmont Faculty
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The Starfish system is a collaborative effort with Professor Priya Narasimhan of Carnegie Mellon University.