PSMAN - Database Interface for Pseudonym Management

Purpose of this class library is the creation of an efficient and versatile persistence and management layer for pseudonyms and their related data.

Requirements and Constraints

The pseudonym management provides a mediation layer (middleware) to map pseudonyms and related data to systems for persistence. These include files in filesystems, database management systems and the like.

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• Keypair for signing
• Usage (onetime, allways, related to communication partner)
• Related data (name, age, shoe size)
• Usage in transactions

• Relational Databases(MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, ...)
• Filesystem (XML-file)

Every user gets its own instance of the mediation layer to provide the persistence he or she needs. Therein he/she may place the pseudonyms for logging and reuse.
Every pseudonym gets saved with all properties, related data and the exact circumstances of its usage. They contain the usage resp. communication date and time, the partner involved as well as the released or collected data.

Architecture

• Data management
• Database adaption
• Administration tool

Prototype

• Data management
• Consistent interface
• Adaption to SQL
• Adaption to XML

Recent Version

• psman.jar (09/20/06 9:15)
  psman.tar.gz (09/20/06 9:15), contains sources, documentation and psman.jar

Changes

• Added "Configuration"
• Added "Identifier"
• Added support for HSQLDB

System requirements

• JDK 1.4.1
• Apache Xerces
• Apache Xalan
• MySQL Connector J
• HSQL-DB

Documentation

• JavaDoc (with frames)
• JavaDoc (without frames)

Developers

• Thomas Kriegelstein
• Sebastian Clauß

• Martin Godisch for the design and first prototype.