Policy-based Management of a Virtual Laboratory Communications Security

The main objective of Virtual LABoratories (VLABs) is to solve the various time and/or space type problems that prevent the normal working of real laboratories but the VLABs services are permanent target of different dgerous. In this paper, we present a dynamic Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to secure the inter users and a VLAB communications. Our VLAB is constituted of a set of Manipulations STations (MSTs) and their common security server (SS). Our PKI environment is composed of a PKI Server (PKIServ) to manage the users-VLAB communications security and a Monitoring Service (MS) to automate its functioning. A prototype has been implemented with CORBA environment and same experimental results are presented.