Poster: ESPOONERBAC: enforcing security policies in outsourced environments with encrypted RBAC
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Flexible and dynamic consent-capturing
iNetSec'11 Proceedings of the 2011 IFIP WG 11.4 international conference on Open Problems in Network Security
Toward efficient and confidentiality-aware federation of access control policies
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing
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The enforcement of security policies in outsourced environments is still an open challenge for policy-based systems. On the one hand, taking the appropriate security decision requires access to the policies. However, if such access is allowed in an untrusted environment then confidential information might be leaked by the policies. Current solutions are based on cryptographic operations that embed security policies with the security mechanism. Therefore, the enforcement of such policies is performed by allowing the authorised parties to access the appropriate keys. We believe that such solutions are far too rigid because they strictly intertwine authorisation policies with the enforcing mechanism. In this paper, we want to address the issue of enforcing security policies in an untrusted environment while protecting the policy confidentiality. Our solution ESPOON is aiming at providing a clear separation between security policies and the enforcement mechanism. However, the enforcement mechanism should learn as less as possible about both the policies and the requester attributes.