Location constraints in digital rights management

  • Authors:
  • Adam Muhlbauer;Reihaneh Safavi-Naini;Farzad Salim;Nicholas Paul Sheppard;Martin Surminen

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia;School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia;School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia;School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia;School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Digital rights management allows information owners to control the use and dissemination of electronic documents via a machine-readable licence. This paper describes the design and implementation of a system for creating and enforcing licences containing location constraints that can be used to restrict access to sensitive documents to a defined area. Documents can be loaded onto a portable device and used in the approved areas, but cannot be used if the device moves to another area. Our contribution includes a taxonomy for access control in the presence of requests to perform non-instantaneous controlled actions.