Two phase filtering for XML access control

  • Authors:
  • Changwoo Byun;Seog Park

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea;Department of Computer Science, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • SDM'06 Proceedings of the Third VLDB international conference on Secure Data Management
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose two phase filtering scheme to develop an efficient mechanism for XML databases to control query-based access. An access control environment for XML documents and some techniques to deal with fine-grained authorization priorities and conflict resolution issues are proposed. Despite this, relatively little work has been done to enforce access controls particularly for XML databases in the case of query-based access. The basic idea utilized is that a user query interaction with only necessary access control rules is modified to an alternative form which is guaranteed to have no access violations using tree-awareness metadata of XML schemas and set operations supported by XPath 2.0. The scheme can be applied to any XML database management system and has several advantages such as small execution time overhead, fine-grained controls, and safe and correct query modification. The experimental results clearly demonstrate the efficiency of the approach.