Distributing trust with the Rampart toolkit

Rampart, a toolkit of protocols, was designed to simplify the task of coordinating correctly operating nodes in a dynamic environment characterized by simple and arbitrary node failures, node recoveries and communication failures. Ramapart provides support for distributed process groups, a programmi...

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Published inCommunications of the ACM Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 71 - 74
Main Author Reiter, Michael
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Association for Computing Machinery, Inc 01.04.1996
Association for Computing Machinery
Subjects
Agreements
Auctions
Bids
Communication
Communications
Computer network protocols
Cybersecurity
Data security
Distributed processing
Distributed processing (Computers)
Failure
Fault tolerance
Groups
Protocol
Prototypes
R&D
Research & development
Safety and security measures
Semantics
Software
Trust
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ISSN0001-0782
1557-7317
DOI10.1145/227210.227228

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Summary:Rampart, a toolkit of protocols, was designed to simplify the task of coordinating correctly operating nodes in a dynamic environment characterized by simple and arbitrary node failures, node recoveries and communication failures. Ramapart provides support for distributed process groups, a programming paradigm shown to simplify construction of distributed programs tolerant of simple failures. Rampart supports communication primitives by which group members can multicast messages to the group, and membership primitives by which a process can be removed from or added to the group if it fails or recovers, respectively. Rampart is a research prototype and the subject of ongoing work.
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ISSN:0001-0782
1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/227210.227228