{"title":"Secure multicast software delivery","authors":"Lin Han, N. Shahmehri","doi":"10.1109/ENABL.2000.883730","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, purchased software is delivered via sending CD-ROMs or downloading from the Internet. These solutions are either time-consuming or not scalable when the number of end-users becomes large. In this paper, we explore the use of multicast technology as an option for software delivery. We present a global structure for multicast software delivery and look into security issues, mainly focusing on access control in establishing a secure multicast recipient group. A communication schema between each entity in a multicast software delivery system is described in detail. We also describe briefly the implementation of our current prototype for a multicast software delivery system. Such electronic software delivery is the first phase of our ongoing project towards unattended software installation, configuration and upgrade.","PeriodicalId":435283,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE 9th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE 2000)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"19","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings IEEE 9th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE 2000)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENABL.2000.883730","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Nowadays, purchased software is delivered via sending CD-ROMs or downloading from the Internet. These solutions are either time-consuming or not scalable when the number of end-users becomes large. In this paper, we explore the use of multicast technology as an option for software delivery. We present a global structure for multicast software delivery and look into security issues, mainly focusing on access control in establishing a secure multicast recipient group. A communication schema between each entity in a multicast software delivery system is described in detail. We also describe briefly the implementation of our current prototype for a multicast software delivery system. Such electronic software delivery is the first phase of our ongoing project towards unattended software installation, configuration and upgrade.