A calculus for access control in distributed systems

  • Authors:
  • Martín Abadi;Michael Burrows;Butler Lampson;Gordon Plotkin

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA;Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA;Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA;Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

We study some of the concepts, protocols, and algorithms for access control in distributed systems, from a logical perspective. We account for how a principal may come to believe that another principal is making a request, either on his own or on someone else's behalf. We also provide a logical language for accesss control lists and theories for deciding whether requests should be granted.