Authors:
Hassane Aissaoui-Mehrez
1
;
Pascal Urien
1
and
Guy Pujolle
2
Affiliations:
1
Institute of Mines-Telecom / TELECOM-ParisTech: LTCI CNRS Laboratory, France
;
2
University of Pierre and Marie Curie, France
Keyword(s):
OpenID, Microcontrollers, Secure Elements, User-Centric Identity, Virtualization and Cloud Computing.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Access Control
;
Data and Application Security and Privacy
;
Data Engineering
;
Databases and Data Security
;
Identity Management
;
Information and Systems Security
;
Internet Technology
;
Network Security
;
Security and Privacy in the Cloud
;
Security in Distributed Systems
;
Software Security
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Wireless Network Security
Abstract:
The Security for the Future Networks (SecFuNet) project proposes to integrate the secure microcontrollers in order to introduce, among its many services, authentication and authorization functions for Cloud and virtual environments. One of the main goals of SecFuNet is to develop a secure infrastructure for virtualized environments and Clouds in order to provide strong isolation among virtual infrastructures, and guarantee that one virtual machine (VM) should not interfere with others. The goal of this paper is to describe the implementation and the experimentation of the solution for identifying users and nodes in the SecFuNet architecture. In this implementation, we also employ low-cost smartcards. Only authorized users are allowed to create or instantiate virtual environments. Thus, users and hypervisors are equipped with secure elements, used to open TLS secure channels with strong mutual authentication.