Building Secure and Reliable Network Applications

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Building Secure and Reliable Network Applications (1996)

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by Kenneth Birman

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@MISC{Birman96buildingsecure,
    author = {Kenneth Birman},
    title = {Building Secure and Reliable Network Applications},
    year = {1996}
}

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Abstract

ly, the remote procedure call problem, which an RPC protocol undertakes to solve, consists of emulating LPC using message passing. LPC has a number of "properties" -- a single procedure invocation results in exactly one execution of the procedure body, the result returned is reliably delivered to the invoker, and exceptions are raised if (and only if) an error occurs. Given a completely reliable communication environment, which never loses, duplicates, or reorders messages, and given client and server processes that never fail, RPC would be trivial to solve. The sender would merely package the invocation into one or more messages, and transmit these to the server. The server would unpack the data into local variables, perform the desired operation, and send back the result (or an indication of any exception that occurred) in a reply message. The challenge, then, is created by failures. Were it not for the possibility of process and machine crashes, an RPC protocol capable of overcomi...

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building secure reliable network application rpc protocol undertakes procedure body reply message desired operation reliable communication environment single procedure invocation result remote procedure call problem reorder message rpc protocol capable machine crash local variable message passing

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