New modalities for access control logics: permission, control and ratification

  • Authors:
  • Valerio Genovese;Deepak Garg

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg,University of Torino, Italy;Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany

  • Venue:
  • STM'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Security and Trust Management
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present a new modal access control logic, ACL+, to specify, reason about and enforce access control policies. The logic includes new modalities for permission, control, and ratification to overcome some limits of current access control logics. We present a Hilbert-style proof system for ACL+ and a sound and complete Kripke semantics for it. We exploit the Kripke semantics to define Seq-ACL+: a sound, complete and cut-free sequent calculus for ACL+, implying that ACL+ is at least semi-decidable. We point at a Prolog implementation of Seq-ACL+ and discuss possible extensions of ACL+ with axioms for subordination between principals.