Title :
Securing XML documents with Author-X
Author :
Bertino, Elisa ; Castano, Silvana ; Ferrari, Elena
Author_Institution :
Milan Univ., Italy
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;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4236.935172
