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Towards a Secure Development Environment for Collaborative Applications

Towards a Secure Development Environment for Collaborative Applications

Shyam P. Joy, Priya Chandran
Copyright: © 2019 |Volume: 15 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 20
ISSN: 1548-3673|EISSN: 1548-3681|EISBN13: 9781522564362|DOI: 10.4018/IJeC.2019010101
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Joy, Shyam P., and Priya Chandran. "Towards a Secure Development Environment for Collaborative Applications." IJEC vol.15, no.1 2019: pp.1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJeC.2019010101

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Joy, S. P. & Chandran, P. (2019). Towards a Secure Development Environment for Collaborative Applications. International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC), 15(1), 1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJeC.2019010101

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Joy, Shyam P., and Priya Chandran. "Towards a Secure Development Environment for Collaborative Applications," International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC) 15, no.1: 1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJeC.2019010101

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Abstract

Collaborative applications use the security services offered by secure socket layer / transport layer security (SSL/TLS) to implement authentication and confidentiality. Since SSL/TLS establishes a secure communication between two participants, for a secure network of n (> 2) participants, at least n(n-1)/2 secure communication channels have to be established. Whereas, a group key agreement (GKA) protocol allows the participants to compute a common secret group key as a function of the secrets of participants, and thereby remove the n(n-1)/2 lower bound on the channel requirement. Partial forward secrecy is a property of the GKA protocol which assesses the secrecy of the group key, when the secrets are compromised. Collaborative applications have different security requirements. Hence, the Spread Toolkit offers a set of GKA protocols, so that the designers can choose the most appropriate one. In this article, given a set of GKA protocols, a method is proposed to select the best among them, with respect to partial forward secrecy.

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