Managing classified documents in a relational database

  • Authors:
  • Adrian Spalka

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science III, University of Bonn, Roemerstrasse 164, D-53117 Bonn, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Das'01 Proceedings of the fifteenth annual working conference on Database and application security
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The handling of classified paper-based documents follows well established mandatory security policies and the mandatory access control model of Bell and LaPadula convincingly demonstrates how to implement these policies in operating systems. In view of the many difficulties encountered by Sea View's attempt to provide full support for these policies in relational databases, this work pursues the less ambitious aim to use a relational database only for the management of classified documents in concordance with mandatory security policies. In the first part we present the options for the conceptual design of the database, ie the database scheme and the adaptation of the data manipulation language. In the second part we address operational aspects related to the possible use of the database by untrustworthy programs. This investigation yields valuable hints to the solution of the more complex problem of constructing a complete multi-level relational database with sound static and dynamic semantics.