rice.pastry.security
Interface PastrySecurityManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

DirectSecurityManager, PermissiveSecurityManager, RMIPastrySecurityManager, WirePastrySecurityManager

public interface PastrySecurityManager

The security manager interface.

Version:

$Id: PastrySecurityManager.java,v 1.2 2002/02/28 07:04:50 druschel Exp $

Author:

Andrew Ladd

Method Summary

java.util.Date	getTimestamp() Gets the current time for a timestamp.
boolean	verifyAddressBinding(rice.pastry.security.Credentials cred, rice.pastry.messaging.Address addr) Checks to see if these credentials can be associated with the address.
boolean	verifyMessage(rice.pastry.messaging.Message msg) This method takes a message and returns true if the message is safe and false otherwise.
rice.pastry.NodeHandle	verifyNodeHandle(rice.pastry.NodeHandle handle) Verify node handle safety.

Method Detail

verifyMessage

public boolean verifyMessage(rice.pastry.messaging.Message msg)

This method takes a message and returns true if the message is safe and false otherwise.

Parameters:

msg - a message.

Returns:

if the message is safe, false otherwise.

verifyAddressBinding

public boolean verifyAddressBinding(rice.pastry.security.Credentials cred,
                                    rice.pastry.messaging.Address addr)

Checks to see if these credentials can be associated with the address.

Parameters:

cred - some credentials.

addr - an address.

Returns:

true if the credentials match the address, false otherwise.

verifyNodeHandle

public rice.pastry.NodeHandle verifyNodeHandle(rice.pastry.NodeHandle handle)

Verify node handle safety.

Parameters:

handle - the handle to check.

Returns:

the verified node handle

getTimestamp

public java.util.Date getTimestamp()

Gets the current time for a timestamp.

Returns:

the timestamp.