Dear Apache Hadoop HDFS community, My name is Aitor Osa and I'm currently working in the Telematics group of Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Mondragon university.
As part of our research, we are trying to implement CP-ABE ( http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1. 475.2538&rep=rep1&type=pdf) crypto cipher on top of Apache Hadoop. ABE stands for Attribute-based encryption and is a type of public-key encryption in which a secret key of a user and the cyphertext are dependent upon attributes. In this case, we are trying to use CP-ABE, which has been already implemented by Bethencourt et al. as a toolkit ( http://hms.isi.jhu.edu/acsc/cpabe/). We have already brought it to Java using JNI. Our main objective is to make a Hadoop HDFS data access control solution based on CP-ABE and to integrate it into Apache Ranger, which will come later. We have been looking to AES cipher suite implementation on Hadoop and we have a vague idea about the available CipherSuite and CryptoCodecs classes and configuration files. However, we are missing some good advice about which java classes, Hadoop files we should care about. We would appreciate any help in this sense. Some clarification, documentation or direction would be much appreciated. Thanks, in advance. Best regards, Aitor Osa.
