A rewriting framework for the composition of access control policies

  • Authors:
  • Clara Bertolissi;Maribel Fernández

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France;King's College London, London, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGPLAN conference on Principles and practice of declarative programming
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In large, and often distributed, environments, where access control information may be shared across multiple sites, the combination of individual specifications in order to define a coherent access control policy is of fundamental importance. In order to ensure non-ambiguous behaviour, formal languages, often relying on firstorder logic, have been developed for the description of access control policies. We propose in this paper a formalisation of policy composition by means of term rewriting. We show how, in this setting, we are able to express a wide range of policy combinations and reason about them. Modularity properties of rewrite systems can be used to derive the correctness of the global policy, i.e. that every access request has an answer and this answer is unique