A Unified Scheme for Resource Protection in Automated Trust Negotiation

  • Authors:
  • Ting Yu;Marianne Winslett

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Automated trust negotiation is an approach to establishingtrust between strangers through iterative disclosure ofdigital credentials. In automated trust negotiation, accesscontrol policies play a key role in protecting resources fromunauthorized access. Unlike in traditional trust managementsystems, the access control policy for a resource isusually unknown to the party requesting access to the resource,when trust negotiation starts. The negotiating partiescan rely on policy disclosures to learn each other's accesscontrol requirements. However, a policy itself may alsocontain sensitive information. Disclosing policies' contentsunconditionally may leak valuable business information orjeopardize individuals' privacy. In this paper, we proposeUniPro, a unified scheme to model protection of resources,including policies, in trust negotiation. UniPro improves onprevious work by modeling policies as first-class resources,protecting them in the same way as other resources, providingfine-grained control over policy disclosure, and clearlydistinguishing between policy disclosure and policy satisfaction,which gives users more flexibility in expressing theirauthorization requirements. We also show that UniPro canbe used with practical negotiation strategies without jeopardizingautonomy in the choice of strategy, and present criteriaunder which negotiations using UniPro are guaranteedto succeed in establishing trust.