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.
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was based on this architecture, which may be outdated.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