The semantics of role-based trust management languages

  • Authors:
  • Anna Felkner;Krzysztof Sacha

  • Affiliations:
  • Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland,Research and Academic Computer Network, Warszawa, Poland;Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland

  • Venue:
  • CEE-SET'09 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 2 Central and East European conference on Advances in Software Engineering Techniques
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Role-based Trust management (RT) languages are used for representing policies and credentials in decentralized, distributed access control systems. RT languages combine trust management and role-based access control features. A credential provides information about the keys, rights and qualifications from one or more trusted authorities. The paper presents a set-theoretic semantics of Role-based Trust management languages, which maps a role to a set of sets of entity names. The semantics applies not only to the basic language of the family RT 0 , but also to a much more sophisticated RT T , which provides manifold roles and role-product operators to express threshold and separation-of-duty policies. A manifold role defines sets of entities whose cooperation satisfies the manifold role. It enables to express a such a condition, which need more than one member of a role to effectively fulfill the particular task.