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Schema Based XML Security: RBAC Approach

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Schema Based XML Security: RBAC Approach
As a platform-independent solution, XML is going to be used in many environments such as application integration and Web Services. Security of XML instance is a basic problem, especially in enterprise with large number of users and XML objects as well as complex authorizations administration. In this paper, a role-based access control (RBAC) model based on XML Schema is proposed. RBAC has been proven to be efficient to improve security administration with flexible authorization management. XML Schema is a specification to define format and contents of XML instance. Access control based on a schema will be transported to all its instances. As a proposed alternate of XML Document Type Definition (DTD), XML Schema supports complex constraints for XML components, such as elements, attributes, datatypes and groups. Also, XML Schema provides a mechanism to build rich reuse relationships between schemas and elements. These will be applied in reusable permissions in our model, which effi...
Xinwen Zhang, Jaehong Park, Ravi S. Sandhu
Added 31 Oct 2010
Updated 31 Oct 2010
Type Conference
Year 2003
Where DBSEC
Authors Xinwen Zhang, Jaehong Park, Ravi S. Sandhu
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