Languages for Specifying Protection Requirements in Data Base Systems. Part I,

Abstract

This report develops a macro-oriented model of access control to accommodate constructs of protection languages at many levels of sophistication. The concept of ownership is explicitly represented in the model and is expanded to include subownership and conditional ownership. The basic sets of the set-theoretic model are presented and the set of system states is derived from the set of all values of the resources. Restrictions on resource values define subsets of states, which are described by expressions called conditions. The concept of a five-dimensional security space is used to visualize how authorization specifications and access requests are manipulated by the authorization and enforcement processes. Several examples are presented to illustrate the relationships among the various parts of the security space.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA006280

Entities

People

  • D. K. Hsiao
  • H. R. Hartson

Organizations

  • Ohio State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Security Techniques
  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Databases
  • Language
  • Security
  • Specifications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Statistical inference.

Technology Areas

  • Space