Assuring security and privacy for digital library transactions on the Web: client and server security policies

  • Authors:
  • Marianne Winslett;Neil Ching;Vicki Jones;Igor Slepchin

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE ADL '97 Proceedings of the IEEE international forum on Research and technology advances in digital libraries
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Often an information source on the Web would like to provide different classes of service to different clients. In the autonomous, highly distributed world of the Web, the traditional approach of using authentication to differentiate between classes of clients is no longer sufficient, as knowledge of a client's identity will often not suffice to determine whether a client is authorized to use a service. In [CJW96] we proposed the use of digital credentials to help solve this problem; but their use will in turn introduce a bevy of new problems associated with credential management. In this paper we propose the use of server security policies to aid in the management of a client's digital credentials. We propose a structure for such policies, and briefly describe an implementation of personal security assistants and server security assistants that embodies our proposed approach.