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Disseminating Security Updates at Internet Scale

Disseminating Security Updates at Internet Scale describes a new system, "Revere", that addresses these problems. "Revere" builds large-scale, self-organizing and resilient overlay networks on top of the Internet to push security updates from dissemination centers to individual n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jun Li, Reiher, Peter (Author), Popek, Gerald J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
Series:Advances in Information Security
Subjects:
Computer Communication Networks
Computer Science
Professions
Electronic Data Processing / Management
The Computing Profession
Computers
Computer Networks 
Processor Architectures
Microprocessors
Theory Of Computation
Computer Architecture
It Operations
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Case Studies
  • 1.2 Goal of Revere
  • 1.3 Assumptions
  • 1.4 Challenges
  • 1.5 Revere Overview
  • 1.6 Key Contributions of This Research
  • 1.7 Roadmap of This Book
  • 2. Assurance via Redundancy
  • 2.1 The Redundancy Approach
  • 2.2 Interruption Threats
  • 2.3 Transmission Primitives
  • 2.4 Assurance via Redundancy
  • 2.5 Employing Redundancy in Revere
  • 2.6 Conclusions
  • 3. RBone: A Self-Organized Resilient Overlay Network
  • 3.1 Principles for Building an RBone
  • 3.2 RBone Formation
  • 3.3 Adaptive Management of RBone
  • 3.4 Messages and Data Structures
  • 3.5 Building a Common RBone
  • 3.6 Conclusions
  • 4. Dissemination Procedure
  • 4.1 Dissemination Principle
  • 4.2 Dissemination Center
  • 4.3 Security Update Format
  • 4.4 Pushing: A Store-And-Forward Mechanism
  • 4.5 Pulling Security Updates
  • 4.6 Open Issues
  • 4.7 Conclusions
  • 5. Security
  • 5.1 Assumptions
  • 5.2 Security of Dissemination Procedure
  • 5.3 Securely Building and Maintaining RBones
  • 5.4 Attacks and Countermeasures
  • 5.5 Open Issues
  • 5.6 Conclusions
  • 6. Real Measurement Under Virtual Topology
  • 6.1 Metrics
  • 6.2 Overloading Approach
  • 6.3 Measurement Procedure
  • 6.4 Results and Analysis
  • 6.5 Open Issues
  • 6.6 Conclusions
  • 7. Related Work
  • 7.1 General-Purpose Distribution Services
  • 7.2 Special-Purpose Distribution Services
  • 7.3 Information Delivery Structures
  • 7.4 Security
  • 7.5 Conclusions
  • 8. Future Work
  • 8.1 Open Issues Discussed in Previous Chapters
  • 8.2 Think More Beyond Today
  • 9. Conclusions
  • 9.1 Summary of the Problem
  • 9.2 The Revere Solution
  • 9.3 Contributions of Revere
  • 9.4 Broad Lessons
  • 9.5 Final Comments
  • References

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