Audit Trail Package - Request for Assistance (resend)

Reshef Roy (rreshef@math.tau.ac.il)
Mon, 13 Jan 1997 02:49:50 +0200 (GMT+0200)

Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 02:49:50 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Reshef Roy <rreshef@math.tau.ac.il>
To: java-security@java
Subject: Audit Trail Package - Request for Assistance (resend)

Dear Madam / Sir,

This mail has been sent to you last week. As no replay has yet been
received, I re-send it. If you are already taking care of the original
message, please ignore this one.

Thank you
---------

Dear Madam / Sir,

My name is Roy Reshef and I am a computer science undergraduate student in
Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

This semester I am attending a workshop on Internet Security at the
university, and I am considering to write for my final project an Audit
Trail package for java applications and applets (the deadline for the
project is by mid-April 1997).

I have some experience in OOP and coding in java.

I have read the Java Security whitepaper, but it refers to audit trail as
an issue to be dealt with at some later phase.

As far as I understand, such a package should be running within the Java
Virtual Machine (under the SecurityManager?), so that it would be
effective for any java application / applet running on top of it.
It should log events such as construction of class instances, memory
allocation, file system access, usage of other system resources,
exceptions thrown etc. (I believe this is more relevant for java
applications, as applets run within their sandbox).

I would appreciate any possible help - advices, guidelines, audit trail
specification documentation (if such documentation exists - even if not
completed - at Javasoft) etc.

Needless to say, if I will eventually write such a package, it will not
be used for any commercial purpose and will be put at the disposal of
Javasoft free-of-charge upon completion (if you will be interested ...)

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Roy

---

+-----------------------+---------------------------------------+ | Roy Reshef | Phone: +972-3-6936869 | | 41 Einstein St., | Fax: +972-3-6936889 | | 69101 Tel-Aviv | Home Page: www.math.tau.ac.il/~rreshef| | Israel | E-mail: rreshef@math.tau.ac.il | +-----------------------+---------------------------------------+