Computer Science – Cryptography and Security
Scientific paper
2009-09-09
Computer Science
Cryptography and Security
CIDR 2009
Scientific paper
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of declarative logic-based trust management languages and systems proposed to ease the description, configuration, and enforcement of security policies. These systems have different tradeoffs in expressiveness and complexity, depending on the security constructs (e.g. authentication, delegation, secrecy, etc.) that are supported, and the assumed trust level and scale of the execution environment. In this paper, we present LBTrust, a unified declarative system for reconfigurable trust management, where various security constructs can be customized and composed in a declarative fashion. We present an initial proof-of-concept implementation of LBTrust using LogicBlox, an emerging commercial Datalog-based platform for enterprise software systems. The LogicBlox language enhances Datalog in a variety of ways, including constraints and meta-programming, as well as support for programmer defined constraints which on the meta-model itself ? meta-constraints ? which act to restrict the set of allowable programs. LBTrust utilizes LogicBlox?s meta-programming and meta-constraints to enable customizable cryptographic, partitioning and distribution strategies based on the execution environment. We present uses cases of LBTrust based on three trust management systems (Binder, D1LP, and Secure Network Datalog), and provide a preliminary evaluation of a Binder-based trust management system.
Aref Molham
Loo Boon Thau
Marczak William
Zhou Wenchao
Zook David
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