Security Threats and Risks for Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES)

Integrity, Privacy, and Security in Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES) for SMTP

“…General security threats of OPES are described in Security Threats for OPES [8] Section 3.3 ("Compatibility with Cryptographic Protection Mechanisms") mentions that an OPES system could eventually deal with cryptographic keys. This raises security issues (such as availability and storage of cryptographic keys) that must be addressed by the implementer.…”

An Architecture for Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES)

“…There are security and privacy issues that relate to data consumer application, callout protocol, and the OPES flow. In [6], there is an analysis of the threats against OPES entities.…”

Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES) Entities and End Points Communication

“…Security Considerations Security considerations for OPES are documented in [4]. Policy and authorization issues are documented in [3].…”

“…Policy can be used to indicate what trace information can be expected from a peer entity. Other application level related security concerns can be found in [4].…”