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13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Volume 2 (ICPADS'07)
A Legal Information flow (LIF) scheduler for distributed systems
Hsinchu, Taiwan
December 05-December 07
ISBN: 978-1-4244-1889-3
null Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University Japan
null Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
In formation systems have to be kept consistent and secure in presence of multiple conflicting transactions and security threats. The role-based access control (RBAC) model is widely used to make systems secure. Here, a subject s is allowed to issue a method op to an object o only if an access right ho; opi is included in the roles granted to the subject s. Even if every access request issued by every subject is authorized in the roles, illegal information flow might occur as well known confinement problem. In this paper, we newly define a legal information flow (LIF) relation (R1 ⇒ R2) among a pair of role families R1 and R2 to prevent illegal information flow. Here, the relation R1 ⇒ R2 shows that no illegal information flow occur if a transaction T1 with a role family R1 is performed prior to another transaction T2 with R2. In addition, we discuss an illegal information flow (IIF) relation R1 ↦ R2, i.e. illegal information flow necessarily occur if every transaction T1 with R1 is performed before T2 with R2. The more significant transaction, the more prior performed. We discuss a legal information flow (LIF) scheduler to synchronize transactions so as to prevent illegal information flow and to serialize conflicting methods from multiple transactions in terms of significancy and information flow relation of roles families.
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null Tomoya Enokido, null Makoto Takizawa, "A Legal Information flow (LIF) scheduler for distributed systems," icpads, vol. 2, pp.1-8, 13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Volume 2 (ICPADS'07), 2007
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