Developing Blockchain Authentication for Hadoop using HDFS Client
Pramod Ravindra Patil, Jyoti Rao, Mithun Kankal · International Journal of Research in Advent Technology · 2019
The Apache Hadoop information system uses Kerberos authentication protocol provided by MIT for authentication.There are various security issues in the Kerberos protocol which are remained unsolved like single purpose of failure, DDoS, replay attacks are some examples.It illustrate the potential security threats or vulnerabilities and huge information issues in victimization of Hadoop.Here authors meant to presents weakness of Kerberos implementations and identify authentication needs that may enhance the security of huge information in distributed environments.The developing mechanism will be a new perspective of using blockchain in Hadoop for authentication instead of Kerberos.The mechanism is relies on the rising technology of blockchain that overcomes the shortcomings of Kerberos.The author has utilized blockchain basic concepts and created HDFS client model of blockchain-based authentication mechanism for big data framework which can coexist along with Hadoop setup, where it describes and implemented private blockchain methodology which could be implemented for a private organization in there Hadoop setup.Also, it provides the various basic operational feature for blockchain admin and HDFS client for end-user along with distributed local authentication mechanism using blockchain.