Special section: Grid/distributed computing systems security

Abstract

We are delighted to present to you the special section of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) on grid/distributed computing systems security. This special section contains five technical papers dealing with cutting-edge research and technology related to the design,modeling, and implementation of architectures, algorithms and protocols of computer systems or environments. In the paper ‘‘Secure verifiable non-interactive oblivious transfer protocol using RSA and bit commitment in a distributed environment’’, Soongohn Kim et al. analyze the basic concept of an OT (Oblivious Transfer) protocol for exchanging secret information fairly, survey the basic idea of an interactive and secure noninteractive OT protocol, and present a new non-interactive type of OTprotocolwhich is verifiable. The amount of traffic of transferring information of the suggested method is less than or equal to that of the conventional interactive method. The paper ‘‘Structure design and test of an enterprise security management system with advanced internal security’’ by Seoksoo Kim et al., analyzes existing enterprise security management systems and, on the basis of the results, proposes and tests an enterprise security management system with reinforced internal security. For the test, the authors used a firewall through log analysis and designed Intranet work using a virtual IP system. J. H. Abawajy proposes a new two-level adaptive space-sharing scheduling policy for non-dedicated heterogeneous commodity-