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Google Summer of Code 2009 The Globus Alliance

PSK Globus XIO driver

by melissa for The Globus Alliance

A large amount of research into security protocols to find the best to establish that a pre-shared key is known by both communicating endpoints, and research into different encryption techniques to ensure data integrity. Writing the XIO driver in C so that it accepts or rejects a connection based on the key. Writing an additional protocol which checks that both sides have the same pre-shared key once the connection has been made.