Securing XML documents with Author-X

Author

Bertino, Elisa ; Castano, Silvana ; Ferrari, Elena

Author_Institution

Milan Univ., Italy

Volume

5

Issue

3

fYear

2001

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

31

Abstract

Author-X is a Java-based system that addresses the security issues of access control and policy design for XML document administration. Author-X supports the specification of policies at varying granularity levels and the specification of user credentials as a way to enforce access control. Access control is available according to both push and pull document distribution policies, and document updates are distributed through a combination of hash functions and digital signature techniques. The Author-X approach to distributed updates allows a user to verify a document´s integrity without contacting the document server

Keywords

Java; authoring systems; authorisation; formal specification; hypermedia markup languages; software packages; Author-X; Java-based system; XML document administration; XML document security; access control; digital signature techniques; distributed updates; document distribution policies; document integrity verification; document updates; granularity levels; hash functions; policy design; pull distribution policy; push distribution policy; security policy specification; user credentials specification; Access control; Data security; Database languages; Information retrieval; Information security; Java; Network servers; Protection; Service oriented architecture; XML;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4236.935172

Filename

935172