A rule-based framework for role-based constrained delegation

  • Authors:
  • Gang Yin;Huai-min Wang;Dian-xi Shi;Yan Jia;Meng Teng

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Defense Technology, China;National University of Defense Technology, China;National University of Defense Technology, China;National University of Defense Technology, China;National University of Defense Technology, China

  • Venue:
  • InfoSecu '04 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information security
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we concentrate on the delegation problem in trust management (TM) systems. One key point for delegation models is to find the balance between flexibility and controllability. Delegation models in existing TM systems usually have no effective control over delegated privileges or try to enforce too strict constraint on delegation that raises difficulty in policy definition and computational-model constructing. We propose a role-based constrained delegation Model called RCDM04, which is a constrained extension of current role-based trust management systems. RCDM04 comprises a novel delegation framework for multi-centric authorization and proxy-based authentication, proposing to use trusted scope and delegation depth to control the propagation of delegated privileges. This paper also introduces a rule-based language for specifying and enforcing the policies in the model.