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Monotonicity and completeness in attribute-based access control

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Abstract

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.There have been many proposals for access control models and authorization policy languages, which are used to inform the design of access control systems. Most, if not all, of these proposals impose restrictions on the implementation of access control systems, thereby limiting the type of authorization requests that can be processed or the structure of the authorization policies that can be specified. In this paper, we develop a formal characterization of the features of an access control model that imposes few restrictions of this nature. Our characterization is intended to be a generic framework for access control, from which we may derive access control models and reason about the properties of those models. In this paper, we consider the properties of monotonicity and completeness, the first being particularly important for attributebased access control systems. XACML, an XML-based language and architecture for attribute-based access control, is neither monotonic nor complete. Using our framework, we define attribute-based access control models, in the style of XACML, that are, respectively, monotonic and complete.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Crampton J, Morisset C

Editor(s): Sjouke Mauw and Christian Damsgaard Jensen

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Published

Conference Name: 10th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2014)

Year of Conference: 2014

Pages: 33-48

Online publication date: 10/09/2014

Acceptance date: 01/01/1900

ISSN: 0302-9743

Publisher: Springer Verlag

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11851-2_3

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11851-2_3

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

ISBN: 9783319118512


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