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-Christoph
Peter Reiher wrote:
> We wish to initiate an OpenSolaris project. The information on our
> project, titled Data Tethers, is below. Please let me know if you need
> any further information.
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> Project short name:
> datatethers
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> One line synopsis:
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> Data Tethers is an operating system enhancement to allow owners of data
> to control when the data is available, particularly whether it is
> allowed to leave a secure physical location.
>
> Short description of the project:
>
> When a portable computing or laptop device is stolen, frequently the
> more important loss is the data that was on it. Valuable or sensitive
> data often should not be kept on a portable device, but existing
> operating systems do not offer mechanisms to prevent it. Data Tethers
> is an enhancement to the Open Solaris operating system that will allow
> the expression and enforcement of policies to prevent data from being
> removed from secure environments. Since it is necessary to protect not
> just a single file that contains a sensitive piece of data, but any
> other copy of that data in the system, Data Tethers will contain
> tracking facilities to follow data wherever it is copied on a machine,
> allowing the system to prevent removal of sensitive data from the
> machine. Data Tethers will require no user intervention to protect
> data. Policy is set administratively and cannot be changed by regular
> users. In addition to the data tracking components, there are important
> issues of securely determining conditions (like physical location) and
> ensuring that no traces of a sensitive piece of data are stored in
> "hidden" places, like deallocated disk blocks.
>
> We would prefer a separate mailing list, rather than one shared with an
> existing project.
>
> The initial project leaders will be Dr. Peter Reiher of the UCLA
> Computer Science Department and Christoph Schuba of Sun Microsystems.
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