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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

    • References

    Archistar Wikipedia
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