Ensuring Information Security in Grid and Cloud Computing Distributed Environments: Traditional Security Mechanisms and Trust Asymmetry Issues

Vasenin V. A., A. A. Itkes , F. M. Puchkov , K. A. Shapchenko , e-mail: vasenin@msu.ru

In this paper we consider traditional approaches to enforcing information security in distributed computing environments based on Grid and Cloud computing technologies. The trust asymmetry issue is emphasized, and several techniques of ensuring mutual trust between producers and consumers of computing services are discussed.

Keywords: information security, distributed systems, Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, trust asymmetry, Trusted Computing, Trusted Platform Module, homomor-phic encryption

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