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Twelfth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
WebDAVA: An Administrator-Free Approach To Web File-Sharing
Linz, Austria
June 09-June 11
ISBN: 0-7695-1963-6
Alexander Levine, Drexel University
Vassilis Prevelakis, Drexel University
John Ioannidis, AT&T Labs - Research
Sotiris Ioannidis, University of Pennsylvania
Angelos D. Keromytis, Columbia University
Collaboration over the Internet depends on the ability of the members of a group to exchange data in a secure yet unobtrusive manner. WebDAVA is a system that allows users to define their own access-control policies to network resources that they control, enabling secure data sharing within an enterprise. Our design allows users to selectively give fine-grain access to their resources without involving their system administrators. We accomplish this by using authorization credentials that define the users? privileges.
Our prototype implements a file-sharing service, where users maintain sensitive-information folders and can allow others to access parts of these. Clients interact with the server over HTTP via a Java applet that transparently handles credential management. This mechanism allows users to share information with users not a priori known to the system, enabling administrator-free management.
This work was supported by DARPA and NSF under Contracts F39502-99-1-0512-MOD P0001 and CCR-TC-0208972 respectively.
Citation:
Alexander Levine, Vassilis Prevelakis, John Ioannidis, Sotiris Ioannidis, Angelos D. Keromytis, "WebDAVA: An Administrator-Free Approach To Web File-Sharing," wetice, pp.59, Twelfth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 2003
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