• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.193-203
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• 2005

XML (extensible Markup Language) is recognized as a standard of data representation and transmission on Internet. XPath is a standard for specifying parts of XML documents anda suitable language for both query processing and access control of XML. In this paper, we use the XPath expression for representing user queries and access control for XML. And we propose an access control method for XML, where we control accesses to XML documents by filtering query XPath expressions through access control XPath expressions. In the proposed method, we directly search XACT (XML Access Control Tree) for a query XPath expression and extract the access-granted parts. The XACT is our proposedstructure, where the edges are structural summary of XML elements and the nodes contain access-control information. We show the query XPath expressions are successfully filtered through the XACT by our proposed method, and also show the performance improvement by comparing the proposed method with the previous work.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.291-295
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• 2004

As a large quantity of information is presented in XML format on the web, there are increasing demands for XML security. Until now research on XML security has been focused on the security of data network using digital signature and encryption technology. As XML data become extensive and complex however XML security comes to involve not only network security but also managerial security. But XML encryption support simple network security. So it cannot support multiple users and multiple access control policy. In this paper, we propose an integration method of encryption and access control policy for securing XML documents. This methodology can support multiple authorization of multiple users with integrating access control. And this can reduce the cost of the existing complicated access evaluation process of access control by using pre-processing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.466-468
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• 2002

웹서비스의 등장으로 XML이 기반기술로서 자리 매김하고 있는 현재, XML을 이용하여 여러 표준기술을 제정하려는 움직임이 많아지고 있다. XACML은 접근제어 리스트(access control list)를 통해 보안이 요구되는 자원에 대해 미세한 접근 제어 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 XML 기반의 언어이다. XACML은 SAML PDP(Policy Decision Point)의 일부로서 역할을 수행 할 수 있으며 각 정의에 따라 각각의 사용자 별 XML 문서 접근 정책을 수립하고 적용 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 XML기반의 Access Control 표준인 XACML에 대하여 분석하고 적용방법에 대하여 연구하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.3-15
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• 2005

As a large quantity of information is presented in XML format on the web, there are increasing demands for XML security. Research area or n security is about Encryption Digital signature, Key management and Access control. until now research on U security has been focused on the security of data network using digital signature and encryption technology. As XML data become extensive and complex XML security comes to involve not only network security but also managerial security. Managerial security is guaranteed through access control. But XML Encryption supports simple network security. So it can't support multiple users and multiple access control policies. In this paper, we propose an integration method of encryption and access control policy for securing XML documents. This methodology can supper multiple authorizations of multiple users with integrating access control. And this can reduce the cost of evaluation process of the existing complicated access authorization with pre-processing.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.1520-1530
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• 2005

As XML is recognized as a prevalent standard for document representation and exchange in the Internet, the need for security of XML becomes very important issue. Until now researches on XML security have been focused on confidentiality or integrity like encryption and digital signature technology. But, as XML data becomes more massive and complicated, it requires managerial security that decided access permit or deny by the authority oi user who is using the XML data. Thus it requires models and mechanisms enabling the specification and enforcement of access control policies for XML documents. In this paper, we suggest the new access control model and mechanism that separate XML documents by access level, assign roles to each user by applying Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and perform access control to specific documents by encrypting each section with roles. The method, we suggested, has an advantage that it does not need to update the whole keys used in encryption process by updating only the relations between appropriate secure layers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.137-142
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• 2006

As a large quantity of information is represented in XML format on the web, there are increasing demands for XML security. Until now research on XML security has been focused on the security of data network using digital signature and encryption technology. As XML data become extensive and complex, however, XML security comes to involve not only network security but also managerial security. But XML encryption support only simple network security. So it cannot support multiple users and multiple access control policy. In this paper, we propose an integration method of encryption and access control policy for securing XML documents. This methodology can support multiple authorization of multiple users with integrating access control.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.43-51
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• 2007

Access control techniques should be flexible enough to support all protection granularity levels. Since access control policies are very likely to be specified in relation to document types, it is necessary to properly manage a situation in which documents fail to be dealt with by the existing access control policies. The existing access control has not taken information structures and semantics into full account due to the fundamental limitations of HTML. In addition, access control for XML documents allows only read operations, and there exists the problem of slowing down system performance due to the complex authorization evaluation process. In order to resolve this problem, this paper designs a XML Access Control Management System which is capable of making fined-grained access control. And then, in developing an access control system, it describes the subject and object policies of authorization for XML document on which authorization levels should be specified and which access control should be performed.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.567-584
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• 2004

As XML becomes popular as the way of presenting information on the web, how to secure XML data becomes an important issue. So far study on XML security has focused on security of data communications by using digital sign or encryption technology. But, it now requires not just to communicate secure XML data on communication but also to manage query process to access XML data since XML data becomes more complicated and bigger. We can manage XML data queries by access control technique. Right now current XML data access control only deals with read operation. This approach has no option to process update XML queries. In this paper, we present XML access control model and technique that can support both read and update operations. In this paper, we will propose the operation for XML document update. Also, We will define action type as a new concept to manage authorization information and process update queries. It results in both minimizing access control steps and reducing memory cost. In addition, we can filter queries that have no access rights at the XML data, which it can reduce unnecessary tasks for processing unauthorized query. As a result of the performance evaluation, we show our access control model is proved to be better than other access control model in update query. But it has a little overhead to decide action type in select query.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.113-120
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• 2009

XML can supply the standard data type in information exchange format on a lot of data generated in running database or applied programs for a company by using the advantage that it can describe meaningful information directly. Therefore, as it becomes more and more necessary to manage and protect massive XML data in an efficient way, the development of safe XML access control techniques needs a new method. In this study access authorization policies are defined to design access control systems. The findings demonstrated that algorithm suggested in this study improved system performance which was low due to the complex authorization evaluation process in the existing access control techniques. It is consequently proved that the safe XML access control policy presented in this study is in an improved form as compared with the existing access control methods.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.5 s.43
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• pp.127-137
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• 2006

We propose two phase filtering scheme to develop an efficient mechanism for XML databases to control query-based access. An access control environment for XML documents and some techniques to deal with fine-grained authorization priorities and conflict resolution issues are proposed. Despite this, relatively little work has been done to enforce access controls particularly for XML databases in the case of query-based access. The basic idea utilized is that a user query interaction with only necessary access control rules is modified to an alternative form through a query optimization technique, which is guaranteed to have no access violations using tree-aware metadata of XML schemas. The scheme can be applied to any XML database management system and has several advantages such as small execution time overhead, fine-grained controls, and safe and correct query modification. The experimental results clearly demonstrate the efficiency of the approach.