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Network Application Frameworks and XML: Summary and Conclusions

This document provides a summary of the key topics covered in the T-110.5140 Network Application Frameworks and XML course, including distributed systems security, building applications with XML, mobile and wireless applications, scalability and performance issues, and more. The document also presents conclusions drawn from the discussion of these topics.

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Network Application Frameworks and XML: Summary and Conclusions

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  1. T-110.5140 Network Application Frameworks and XML Summary and Conclusions30.04.2007Sasu Tarkoma

  2. Topics Covered • Distributed systems security • Multi-addressing: Mobility and multi-homing • Building applications with XML • Distributed objects • Role of directory services • Mobile and wireless applications • XML-based presentation and RPC • Scalability and performance issues

  3. Objects Interconnections • Interconnections applicable on many levels • Network-level operation • DNS, overlay lookup, IPsec • Application-level operation • UDDI, SSL, WS-Security Network Security Directories

  4. Mobility and Routing

  5. Naming, Addressing, and Routing How to identify and name a node? Frequent updates? One or two new name spaces? NAMING unicast: to a specific node broadcast: to all nodes multicast: to a subset of nodes anycast: to any one in some subset (IPv6) ROUTING ADDRESSING How to route information to the node’s address? NAT traversal? Overlay vs. network routing Where is the node located? Differences (IPv4/IPv6) Multi-addressing?

  6. Routing vs. mobility • Topology data aggregation is necessary • Cannot track all hosts in the world • IP addresses determined by topology • Network gives the routing prefix • Mobile hosts must change their IP addresses • Causes sockets / connections to break • How to communicate address changes? • Goal of a mobility protocol • Transport and applications do not see address changes

  7. Rendezvous • How to find the moving end-point? • Tackling double jump • What if both hosts move at the same time? • Requires a rendezvous point • Mobility management is needed! • Initial rendezvous • Can be based on directories • Requires fast updates to directories • Does not work well for DNS

  8. Process Transport IP Layer Link Layer Identity/Locator split • New name space for IDs • Maybe based on DNS • Maybe a separate namespace • Maybe IP addresses are used for location • Good for hiding IP versions • Communication end-points (sockets) bound to identifiers identifier ID Layer locator

  9. Host Identity Protocol • New cryptographic namespace • Connection endpoints mapped to 128 bit host identity tags (hashes of public keys) • Mapping at HIP layer • 4-phase Base Exchange with cryptographic puzzle for DoS prevention • IPSec for network-level security

  10. Upper layer view • IP connectivity problematic today • Broken by firewalls, NATs, mobility • Two versions of IP: IPv4 and IPv6 • HIP has a potential remedy • Restores end-to-end connectivity (NAT traversal possible but may require changes / tunnelling) • Adds opportunistic security • Handles mobility and multi-homing • Requires DHT based overlay (currently missing) • Where is the network state? • Routers know addresses • Like today • DHT knows HITs / SIDs • Lease based storage • Middleboxes know SPIs • Soft state

  11. Lessons to learn • Hierarchical routing likely to stay • Addresses carry topological information • Efficient and well established • Applications face changing connectivity • QoS varies • periods of non-connectivity • Identifiers and locators likely to split • Mobility management is needed • Probably changes in directory services • Overlays have been proposed

  12. Summary • Topology based routing is necessary • Mobility causes address changes • Address changes must be signalled end-to-end • Mobility management needed • Initial rendezvous: maybe a directory service • Double jump problem: rendezvous needed • Many engineering trade-offs

  13. Distributed Hash Tables and Overlays

  14. Overlay Networks • Origin in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) • Builds upon Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) • Easy to deploy • No changes to routers or TCP/IP stack • Typically on application layer • Overlay properties • Resilience • Fault-tolerance • Scalability

  15. Some DHT applications • File sharing • Web caching • Censor-resistant data storage • Event notification • Naming systems • Query and indexing • Communication primitives • Backup storage • Web archive

  16. Applications for DHTs • DHTs are used as a basic building block for an application-level infrastructure • Internet Indirection Infrastructure (i3) • New forwarding infrastructure based on Chord • DOA (Delegation Oriented Architecture) • New naming and addressing infrastructure based on overlays

  17. Summary • Mobility and multi-homing require directories • Scalability, low-latency updates • Overlay networks have been proposed • Searching, storing, routing, notification,.. • Lookup (Chord, Tapestry, Pastry), coordination primitives (i3), middlebox support (DOA) • Logarithmic scalability, decentralised,… • Host/identity split and overlays for directories seem good candidates for solving many of the issues with mobility and multi-homing

  18. Middleware

  19. Middleware • Widely used and popular term • Fuzzy term • One definition • “A set of service elements above the operating system and the communications stack” • Second definition • “Software that provides a programming model above the basic building blocks of processes and message passing” (Colouris, Dollimore, Kindberg, 2001)

  20. Why Middleware? • Application development is complex and time-consuming • Should every developer code their own protocols for directories, transactions, ..? • How to cope with heterogeneous environments? • Networks, operating systems, hardware, programming languages • Middleware is needed • To cut down development time • Rapid application development • Simplify the development of applications • Support heterogeneous environments and mask differences in OS/languages/hardware

  21. Middleware cont. • Middleware services include • directory, trading, brokering • remote invocation (RPC) facilities • transactions • persistent repositories • location and failure transparency • messaging • Security • Network stack (transport and below) is not part of middleware

  22. Transparencies • Location transparency • RPC and RMI used without knowledge of the location of the invoked procedure / object • transport protocol transparency • RPC may be implemented using any transport protocol • transparency of OS and hardware • RPC/RMI uses external data representation • Presentation is important • XML is becoming increasingly important • transparency of programming languages • language independent definition of procedures: CORBA IDL

  23. Network Application Framework • Network Application Framework is middleware • Contains services for distributed applications • Middleware as a term is fuzzier and larger • In this course, we focus on network application frameworks and XML • objects (discovery, representation) • directories (overlays,..) • network • security

  24. Examples • Middleware • CORBA • Message-oriented Middleware • Event Systems & tuple spaces • Java Message Service • Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) • .NET • Mobile middleware • WAE • J2ME • Wireless CORBA • FUEGO

  25. Mobile Middleware I • Middleware is typically designed and implemented for fixed-network hosts • High bandwidth, low latency, reliable communication • Persistent storage and sufficient computing power • No mobility • Mobile environment requires new solutions • Existing middleware services do not scale • Previous lectures: mobility is challenging • Small devices / embedded systems pose totally different challenges

  26. Mobile Middleware II • Goals for middleware: • fault-tolerance, adaptability, heterogeneity,scalability, resource sharing • Mobile middleware • dynamically changing context • decoupled • events, tuple spaces • Basic solution for wireless • Use a proxy

  27. Summary • Middleware • for application development and deployment • for supporting heterogeneous environments • Main communication paradigms: RPC/RMI, asynchronous events (publish/subscribe) • J2EE, CORBA, .. • Mobile middleware • Desktop middleware not usable on small, mobile devices • Special solutions are needed • J2ME, Wireless CORBA, ..

  28. Web Services

  29. Standardization • W3C Web Services • XML Protocol Working Group • SOAP • Web Services Addressing Working Group • Web Services Choreography Working Group • Web Services Description Working Group • WSDL • OASIS • E-business standards, UDDI • WS-I (Web Service Interoperability Org.) • Binding profiles,..

  30. Web Service Architecture • The three major roles in web services • Service provider • Provider of the WS • Service Requestor • Any consumer / client • Service Registry • logically centralized directory of services • A protocol stack is needed to support these roles

  31. Web Services Protocol Stack • Message Transport • Responsible for transporting messages • HTTP, BEEP • XML Messaging • Responsible for encoding messages in common XML format • XML-RPC, SOAP • Service Description • Responsible for describing an interface to a specific web service • WSDL • Service discovery • Responsible for service discovery and search • UDDI

  32. WS Protocol Stack Discovery: UDDI Description: WSDL XML Messaging: SOAP, XML-RPC, XML Transport: HTTP, FTP, BEEP, SMTP, JMS

  33. What is WSDL? • WSDL: Web Service Description Language • An XML language used to describe and locate web services • location of web service • methods that are available • data type information and XML messages • Commonly used to describe SOAP-based services • W3C standard (work in progress) • Initial input: WSDL 1.1 as W3C Note • Current version 2.0 (last call) • Some differences between 1.1 and 2.0 • WSDL 1.1 in WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 and 1.1.

  34. WSDL Overview <definitions>: ROOT WSDL element <types>: The data types that are used <message>: What messages are transmitted? <portType>: The supported operations <binding>: The binding to concrete protocols <service>: Reference to actual location

  35. Mapping SOAP to WSDL

  36. Putting it together Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/

  37. SOAP Envelope SOAP Header Header block Header block SOAP Body Message Body SOAP Message Structure Optional header contains blocks of information regarding how to process the message: • Routing and delivery settings • Authentication/authorization assertions • Transaction contexts • Body is a mandatory element and contains the actual message to be delivered and processed (and fault information)

  38. What is UDDI? • Universal Description Discovery and Integration • Industry-wide initiative supporting web services • Specifications • Schemas for service description • Schemas for business (service implementers) description • Developed on industry standards • Applies equally to XML and non-XML web services • Implementation • Public web service registry and development resources • SOAP-based programming protocol for registering and discovering Web services • XML schema for SOAP messages • a description of the API • UDDI does not directly specify how pricing, deadlines, etc. are handled/matched • Advanced discovery via portals and marketplaces

  39. Web Services Security

  40. Need for XML security • XML document can be encrypted using SSL or IPSec • this cannot handle the different parts of the document • documents may be routed hop-by-hop • different entities must process different parts of the document • SSL/TLS/IPSec provide message integrity and privacy only when the message is in transit • We also need to encrypt and authenticate the document in arbitrary sequences and to involve multiple parties

  41. High-level view to WS security • Security is as strong as the weakest link • The options for an attacker are: • Attack the Web Service directly • Using ”unexpected” XML • Attack the Web Services platform • Attack a WS security tool • Attack the underlying operating system or network connection

  42. Application-layer Security • Identity-based security • Authentication and authorization information shared across security domains • Content-based security • Protecting against buffer overflow and CGI-like attacks • Must have knowledge about the applications to which these messages are directed • Accountability or non-repudation • Need message level security • Maintain integrity, archived audit trails • The standards and specifications mentioned earlier address these issues

  43. Standardization landscape • Who are specifying the basic standards? • Who are specifying the higher level standards? • Who is implementing the standards?

  44. Who are specifying the standards? • Joint IETF/W3C • XML Signature (www.w3.org/Signature) • W3C • XML Encryption (www.w3.org/Encryption/2001) • XML Key Management (XKMS) (www.w3.org/2001/XKMS) • OASIS • WS-Security • SOAP Message Security specification etc. • SAML: Security Assertion Markup Language • XACML: Extensible Access Control Markup language • Electronic Business XML (ebXML) (with UN/CEFACT) • Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) • Basic security

  45. W3C OASIS Standardization Groups Extensible Rights Markup Language XrML Provisioning XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF) eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) XML Key Management Specification WS-Security Biometrics XML Encryption XML Signature XKMS SAML XACML Security Assertion Markup language

  46. Basic XML Security • XML Digital Signatures (XMLDSIG) • XML Encryption • XML Canonicalization • XML Key Management

  47. Web Services Security Requirements • Access control to Web services • WS-Security, XML-Signature • SAML – Issuing and validation of SAML assertions • Digital certificate validation • Content-filtering XML • Filters based on data format (XSD) • Filters based on content (XPath) • Filters based on integrity (XML Signature)

  48. XML XML Functional point of view Management Console Design and Deploy Security policies ID Management LDAP PKI Single Sign-On Authorization Authentication Content Checking Reporting Activity Alerting Secure logging Integrity Validation Routing

  49. Security Contexts in Web Services • Remember Web Services goals: • Re-use existing services • Combine services from several domains • Security result: Must support several security domains • SOAP intermediaries • Reusing security tokens from one message in another message

  50. Summary • Security contexts • Security needed within and between contexts • XML validation, encryption, and authentication needed between security contexts! • WS security standard revisited • SOAP header carries security information (and other info as well) • Selective processing • SAML • Statements about authorization, authentication, attributes • SAML & WS-Security & XACML • Implementations available

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