Authorization Based on Evidence and Trust

  • Authors:
  • Bharat K. Bhargava;Yuhui Zhong

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • DaWaK 2000 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Developing authorization mechanisms for secure information access by a large community of users in an open environment is challenging. Current research efforts grant privilege to a user based on her objective properties that are demonstrated by digital credentials (evidences). However, holding credentials is not sufficient to certify that a user is trustworthy. Therefore, we propose using the notion of trust to characterize the probability that a user will not harm an information system. We present a trust-enhanced role-mapping server, which cooperates with RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) mechanisms to together implement authorization based on evidence and trust. A prerequisite for this is our proposed formalization of trust and evidence.