The following is a list of publications associated with Antigone. Several others are currently in the process of being completed and submitted for publication. These works will be listed as they become publicly available.
Doctoral Thesis: Policy Management in Secure Group Communication , Patrick Drew McDaniel, 2001. (.ps)
Ismene: Provisioning and Policy Reconciliation in Secure Group Communication, P. McDaniel and A. Prakash. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Technical Report CSE-TR-438-00, December 2000.
Description: This paper the philosophy and design of the Ismene Policy Description Language. It contains a detailed summary of the IPDL language construction, features, and use. An extended example (file-system mirroring) application is described and policies illustrated.
Principles of Policy in Secure Groups, Hugh Harney, Andrea Colegrove and Patrick McDaniel. In Proceedings of Network and Distributed Systems Security 2001. Internet Society, February 2001. San Diego, CA. (to appear).
Description: This paper considers the requirements and principles of policy in secure groups. An extended analysis of the GSAKMP system is given to illustrate how these principles may be applied to a given group system. Several concepts upon which Antigone is built are defined and identified.
Lightweight Failure Detection in Secure Group Communication, P. McDaniel and A. Prakash. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Technical Report CSE-TR-428-00, June 2000.
Description: In this paper, we present the design and analysis of a mechanism used for the detection of member failures in secure groups. Based on one-time passwords, our solution does not obviate the need for periodic statements from group members, but significantly reduces the cost of their generation and validation. A study comparing the costs of traditional mechanisms with our proposed approach is presented.
Antigone: Implementing Policy in Secure Group Communication, P. McDaniel and A. Prakash. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Technical Report CSE-TR-426-00, May 2000.
Description: This paper is a extended version of the previous Antigone architecture document. It includes a deeper analysis of the design space of secure group communication security policies, enhanced security mechanisms, a brief overview of the Antigone API, and a discussion of the application of policy to real world environments.
Antigone: A Flexible Framework for Secure Group Communication, P. McDaniel, Atul Prakash, and P. Honeyman, In Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Security Symposium, pages 99-114, August 1999.
Description: This paper presents the motivation and architecture of the Antigone framework. A preliminary performance analysis is also included.
Secure Distributed Virtual Conferencing, A. Adamson and C.J. Antonelli and K.W. Coffman and P. D. McDaniel and J. Rees}, Proceedings of Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS '99), September 1999.
Description: SDVC is a secure videoconferencing application based on the vic application. This paper describes the difficulties encountered during the development and deployment of SDVC. Many of these problems served as motivation for Antigone.
Lightweight Secure Group Communication, P. McDaniel, P. Honeyman, and A. Prakash, CITI Technical Report 98-2, April, 1998
Description: LSGC was a precursor to the Antigone system. The technical report identifies several difficulties associated with implementing secure group policy.
