REFEREE Project Homepage
REFEREE stands for Rule-controlled Environment for
Evaluation of Rules, and Everything Else. It is a general
mechanism for expressing and evaluating trust management
policies. In this project, we are applying this mechanism to
solve the trust management problems that exist in the World Wide
Web today. Through our implementation, we hope to get a better
understanding about trust management, the World Wide Web, and how
REFEREE bridges the two.
This project is being implemented by Yang-hua Chu as
his master thesis at MIT. Below you will find more information
about REFEREE, as well as some implementation notes, progress
reports, and demonstrations.
6/16/97:
- The third source
release (in tar-gzip format) of the REFEREE sample
implementation. It is pretty big (~1.8M) because it
contains the Jigsaw
Proxy. Please read the instruction on how
to install and run the sample code. There is no
documentation on the source release yet. However, my thesis
provides a good overview of REFEREE and the architecture
of the reference implementation.
6/13/97:
- I handed in my Master of Engineering thesis today! It is
titled "Trust Management for the World Wide
Web." Thesis is available on-line in HTML format.
- My thesis was created using Microsoft Word 97. I
recommend Word
97 format (~800K) or Rich-text
format (RTF, ~9MB) for viewing with better document
layout.
4/7/97:
- REFEREE is presented in the Sixth International World
Wide Web Conference. Slides are available in PowerPoint
or in HTML
format.
- Pointer to the REFEREE
paper, by Chu, Y., Feigenbaum, J., LaMacchia B.,
Resnick, P., Strauss, M.
- Pointer to [BFL96]
paper: M. Blaze, J. Feigenbaum, J. Lacy,
Decentralized Trust Management, first appeared in
Proceedings of the 1996 Symposium on Security and
Privacy, pp. 164-173
2/10/97:
- Second source
release of REFEREE sample implementation. Please read
the instruction
on how to install the text-based REFEREE demo.
12/13/96:
- REFEREE on-line demo-1.2.
It contains the sample policies described in the paper
"REFEREE: Trust Management for Web
Applications". The paper is being submitted to WWW6
conference.
12/4/96:
- Yang-hua gave a presentation on Trust Management in
the World Wide Web to CIS (Cryptography and Internet
Security) student seminar on December 4. Click here to
see the presentation
slides.
11/19/96:
- Check out the first working
demo of REFEREE! Best of all, it is all on-line: no
download, no compliation.
- First source
release of REFEREE sample implementation. Please read
the instruction
on how to install REFEREE demo.
11/8/96:
10/25/96:
The predecessor of REFEREE is PTMK (PICS Trust Management
Kernel). The work below was based on this architecture, which may
be outdated.
10/11/96:
- Writing on interfacing PTMK
with Jigsaw and HotJava.
- Remarks on PICS Label
Syntax 1.1.
9/27/96:
Comments to Yang-hua Chu
Created 27 October 1996 by Yang-hua Chu
Last updated 28 October 1996 by Yang-hua Chu