In several distributed systems a user should only be able to access data if a user posses a certain set of credentials or attributes. Currently, the only method for enforcing such...
Text-based passwords are still the most commonly used authentication mechanism in information systems. We took advantage of a unique opportunity presented by a significant change...
Richard Shay, Saranga Komanduri, Patrick Gage Kell...
Modelling security policies requires means to specify permissions and prohibitions. However, this is generally not sufficient to express security properties such as availability ...
Attributes define, classify, or annotate the datum to which they are assigned. However, traditional attribute architectures and cryptosystems are ill-equipped to provide security ...
Matthew Pirretti, Patrick Traynor, Patrick McDanie...
Security is a critical issue in dynamic and open distributed environments such as network-based services or wireless networks. To ensure that a certain level of security is maintai...