This paper maintains that for an access-control mechanism to support a wide range of policies, it is best to dispense with any built-in semantics for roles in the mechanism itself...
—The paper first discusses motivations why taking into account location information in authentication and access control is important. The paper then surveys current approaches t...
Abstract. We present a new access control mechanism for P2P networks with distributed enforcement, called P2P Access Control System (PACS). PACS enforces powerful access control mo...
– Peer-to-peer is a popular distributed system. Mobile ad hoc networks and peer-to-peer file sharing systems both lack fixed infrastructure support and hold no a-priori knowledge...
Current computer security systems are based on the premise that once a user presents valid credentials to the authentication system (e.g. valid ID and password), they are granted ...