Archistar

Archistar is a research project funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology. It is dedicated to the development of a secure distributed storage architecture for trustworthy cloud usage.

The Archistar framework combines methods from Byzantine fault tolerance, secure multi-party computation, and additional tools from cloud cryptography. A non-functional goal is to provide a base framework for further research into this topic: to achieve this, focus has been set on readability and open-source licenses have been used for all prototype code.

To achieve better readability self-contained aspects were extracted into libraries:

• [1] Secure multi-party computation repository on github
• [2] BFT state-machine repository on github

Current Features as of November 2013

• Written in Java7 under an open source license (GPLv2 and LGPLv2)
• Secret sharing through RabinIDS, ShamirPSS, Krawczyk, RabinBenOr
• Byzantine Fault Tolerance through a custom BFT layer
• Tries to not reinvent the wheel, uses existing software as Netty.io
• Developed mostly by the Austrian Institute of Technology and Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications

See also

• Byzantine Fault Tolerance
• secure multi-party computation
• Shamir's Secret Sharing

External links

• [3] Archistar-core repository on github
• [4] Archistar homepage
• [5] AIT Archistar homepage.
• [6] German Archistar Homepage by a collaborating company
• [7] German Project Description by the Technical University of Graz