Analysis of a security protocol in a cluster storage system
A.K.M. Nazmus Sakib, Mais Nijim · WIT transactions on information and communication technologies · 2013
This paper represents a review of security vulnerabilities in a cluster storage system.In particular, we focus on identifying the different network level vulnerabilities including attack on the authentication, key exchange and data transfer protocol.We provide a brief description of the different functional entities and we investigate several technical issues including infrastructure and aspects related to the security of the existing system.This paper proposes a secure authentication technique for the network layer of DAS, SAN and NAS.We also bring unencrypted data communication under an encryption process.We implement the concept of shared key by using a one way chain algorithm for block transfer of data.We integrate a new protocol to maintain the level of security according to the data priority concept.