A theorem on grid access control

  • Authors:
  • ZhiWei Xu;GuanYing Bu

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computing Technology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P.R. China;Institute of Computing Technology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer Science and Technology - Grid computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The current grid security research is mainly focused on the authentication of grid systems. A problem to be solved by grid systems is to ensure consistent access control. This problem is complicated because the hosts in a grid computing environment usually span multiple autonomous administrative domains. This paper presents a grid access control model, based on asynchronous automata theory and the classic Bell-LaPadula model. This model is useful to formally study the confidentiality and integrity problems in a grid computing environment. A theorem is proved, which gives the necessary and sufficient conditions to a grid to maintain confidentiality. These conditions are the formalized descriptions of local (node) relations or relationship between grid subjects and node subjects.