INTER-NODE RELATIONSHIP LABELING: A FINE-GRAINED XML ACCESS CONTROL IMPLEMENTATION USING GENERIC SECURITY LABELS

Zheng Zhang, Walid Rjaibi

2006

Abstract

Most work on XML access control considers XML nodes as the smallest protection unit. This paper shows the limitation of this approach and introduces an XML access control mechanism that protects inter-node relationships. Our approach provides a finer granularity of access control than the node-based approaches(i.e., more expressive). Moreover, our approach helps achieve the “need-to-know” security principle and the “choice” privacy principle. This paper also shows how our approach can be implemented using a generic label infrastructure and suggests algorithms to create/check a secure set of labeled relationships in an XML document.

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Zhang Z. and Rjaibi W. (2006). INTER-NODE RELATIONSHIP LABELING: A FINE-GRAINED XML ACCESS CONTROL IMPLEMENTATION USING GENERIC SECURITY LABELS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-63-4, pages 371-378. DOI: 10.5220/0002104803710378


in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt06,
author={Zheng Zhang and Walid Rjaibi},
title={INTER-NODE RELATIONSHIP LABELING: A FINE-GRAINED XML ACCESS CONTROL IMPLEMENTATION USING GENERIC SECURITY LABELS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={371-378},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002104803710378},
isbn={978-972-8865-63-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2006)
TI - INTER-NODE RELATIONSHIP LABELING: A FINE-GRAINED XML ACCESS CONTROL IMPLEMENTATION USING GENERIC SECURITY LABELS
SN - 978-972-8865-63-4
AU - Zhang Z.
AU - Rjaibi W.
PY - 2006
SP - 371
EP - 378
DO - 10.5220/0002104803710378