Discretionary capability confinement

  • Authors:
  • Philip W. L. Fong

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ESORICS'06 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Research in Computer Security
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Motivated by the need of application-level access control in dynamically extensible systems, this work proposes a static annotation system for modeling capabilities in a Java-like programming language. Unlike previous language-based capability systems, the proposed annotation system can provably enforce capability confinement. This confinement guarantee is leveraged to model a strong form of separation of duty known as hereditary mutual suspicion. The annotation system has been fully implemented in a standard Java Virtual Machine.