Paper Info
Title
Performance study of software-based iSCSI security
Abstract
In this paper, we study possible iSCSI security different security requirements. To evaluate the performance of different security schemes, we conduct performance experiments using a software-based iSCSI implementation with proper security extensions. In data encryption schemes, we consider two alternatives, IP Security Protocol (IPSec) and Secure Socket Layer (SSL), and compare the resulting iSCSI performances with these two schemes. We find that the software-based iSCSI implementation offers reasonable throughput with a 2 GHz CPU at the network speed of 100Mbps; however, with a 1 GHz CPU, the software implementation is not capable of providing sufficient throughput with triple-DES encrypted storage data. In addition, we also find that IPSec ESP scheme has better performance when the requested data size is small, compared to SSL. Given that both performance and security are critical issues in the deployment of iSCSI, it is important to understand the tradeoffs between them. We believe that this study sheds some helpful light on this understanding.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/SISW.2002.1183513
IEEE Security in Storage Workshop
Keywords
Field
DocType
software-based iscsi implementation,performance study,performance andsecurity,ssl,thesoftware-based iscsi implementation,ip security protocol,software-based iscsi security,transport protocols,ghz cpu,data encryption schemes,data encryption scheme,internet,triple-des encrypted storage data,ipsec esp scheme,possible iscsi securityschemes,peripheral interfaces,requested data size,secure socket layer,security of data,performance experiment,security protocol
HyperSCSI,IPsec,Internet security,Data security,Security Parameter Index,Computer science,Software security assurance,Computer network,Security association,iSCSI,Operating system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-1888-5
11
0.85
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuang-Yi Tang1110.85
Yingping Lu2767.66
David H. C. Du3105290.79