Secure communication is an important requirement in the real world as the number of such systems is in process. A standard for large scale distributed file systems that can support parallel access to multiple storage devices is parallel Network File System (pNFS). This file system provides security using Kerberos. Kerberos is one of the network authentication protocol used by client server applications. This is based on secret key cryptography. In this paper, we build a custom simulator application that shows how secure authentication takes place in the context of a parallel network file system. We proposed and implemented a mechanism to have secure authentication and parallel communications besides reducing overhead of metadata servers. The empirical results revealed that the proposed system supports secure authentication. Keywords: Key establishment, many-to-many communications, secure authentication Cite this Article Raju Dara, Sowjanya T. Secure and Parallel Access Mechanism for Network File System. Journal of Network Security. 2016; 4(3): 42–48p.
