Design of a lattice-based access control scheme

Author

Chiang, Chia-Chu ; Bayrak, Coskun ; Seker, Remzi ; Topaloglu, Umit ; Demirer, Murat ; Samadi, Nasrola ; Tek, Suleyman ; Jiang, Bian ; Zhou, GuangXu ; Wang, Xiaoran

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

11-14 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

68

Lastpage

73

Abstract

We survey the literature for access control schemes in a user hierarchy. Some schemes have already been shown to be insecure or incorrect. Many schemes assume very restrictive subordinating relationships existing in a hierarchy where users are grouped into partially ordered relationships without taking resources into consideration. We believe that a practical access control scheme should support access control in a lattice where users and resources are both together grouped into partially ordered relationships. In this paper, we present a scheme to achieve this goal. We also study existing schemes for their efficiency and performance. Based on the results of the study, we design an efficient scheme to support dynamic key management.

Keywords

authorisation; cryptography; cryptographic keys; dynamic key management; hierarchical access control; lattice-based access control; Access control; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer science; Cryptography; Cybernetics; Lattices; Permission; Resource management; USA Councils; Access Control; Cryptographic Keys; Cryptography; Dynamic Key Management; Hierarchical Access Control; Lattice; and Rekeying;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009. SMC 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2793-2

Electronic_ISBN

1062-922X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346329

Filename

5346329