In extraordinary situations, certain individuals may require access to information for which they are not normally authorized. For example, to facilitate rescue of people trapped ...
Cynthia E. Irvine, Timothy E. Levin, Paul C. Clark...
Since Boneh and Franklin published their seminal paper on identity based encryption (IBE) using the Weil pairing , there has been a great deal of interest in cryptographic primitiv...
Sattam S. Al-Riyami, John Malone-Lee, Nigel P. Sma...
In an attribute-based signature (ABS), users sign messages with any predicate of their attributes issued from an attribute authority. Under this notion, a signature attests not to...
Jin Li, Man Ho Au, Willy Susilo, Dongqing Xie, Kui...
Current developments show that tomorrow’s information systems and applications will no longer be based on monolithic architectures that encompass all the functionality. Rather, t...
In this paper, we study the maintenance of role-based access control (RBAC) models in database environments using transitive closure relations. In particular, the algorithms that ...