Ninth IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop
The non-primitiveness of the simple-security property and its non-applicability to relational databases
Dromquinna Manor, Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland
March 10-March 12
ISBN: 0-8186-7522-5
Many works on secure databases state the simple-security-property as a postulate the necessity of which for achieving confidentiality seems to be out of question. We show that this property is not a postulate but a conclusion the validity of which relies an the assumptions made about the underlying secure environment. We then demonstrate that it contradicts the assumptions made by relational and logic-based databases. This result indicates that the semantic problems secure databases struggle which can be partially attributed to the accession of the simple-security-property.
Index Terms:
relational databases; security of data; simple-security property; relational databases; confidentiality; secure environment
Citation:
A. Spalka, "The non-primitiveness of the simple-security property and its non-applicability to relational databases," csfw, pp.146, Ninth IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, 1996