Certificate based authorization simulation system

Author

Dai, Jie ; Alves-Foss, Jim

Author_Institution

Centre for Secure & Dependable Software, Idaho Univ., Moscow, ID, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

190

Lastpage

195

Abstract

Using certificates for distributed authorizations in computer network systems has been discussed in the literature. However real implementations of the concept are rarely seen. In our certificate based authorization simulation system (CBASS) project, we prototyped a computer system including some of the emulated functions of an operating system such as machine, user and file management, and emulated applications. These system management functions and applications use certification instead of conventional access control list mechanism for resource access control. It is our purpose to explore a practical way to build the distributed authorization into computer systems in order to solve authorization problems which exist in present open and large distributed computing environments. In this paper, we present our design and implementation of the CBASS

Keywords

application program interfaces; authorisation; computer networks; access control list mechanism; certificate based authorization simulation system; computer network systems; emulated functions; operating system; resource access control; Access control; Application software; Authorization; Computational modeling; Computer network management; Computer simulation; Distributed computing; Operating systems; Project management; Virtual prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2001. COMPSAC 2001. 25th Annual International

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1372-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.2001.960616

Filename

960616