Access control in a world of software diversity

  • Authors:
  • Martín Abadi;Andrew Birrell;Ted Wobber

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Santa Cruz;Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley;Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley

  • Venue:
  • HOTOS'05 Proceedings of the 10th conference on Hot Topics in Operating Systems - Volume 10
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We describe a new design for authentication and access control. In this design, principals embody a flexible notion of authentication. They are compound principals that reflect the identities of the programs that have executed, even those of login programs. These identities are based on a naming tree. Our access control lists are patterns that recognize principals. We show how this design supports a variety of access control scenarios.