Sentential access control

  • Authors:
  • Curt Lawson;Feng Zhu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL;University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 50th Annual Southeast Regional Conference
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We propose a novel access control approach for pervasive computing environments. Sentential Access Control uses a constructed language similar to rudimentary English as the basis for intuitive context-aware security policy specification. The elements of sentences in this language map directly to fundamental security abstractions that allow us to apply our approach to many different access control implementations while still being sufficiently expressive and understandable for the user. We describe our model both informally and formally, and show a prototype application for smartphones that uses our approach to implement reactive access control.