• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.3274-3297
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• 2021

Permission delegation is an important research issue in access control. It allows a user to delegate some of his permissions to others to reduce his workload, or enables others to complete some tasks on his behalf when he is unavailable to do so. As an ideal solution for controlling read access on outsourced data objects on the cloud, Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE) has attracted much attention. Some existing CP-ABE schemes handle the read permission delegation through the delegation of the user's private key to others. Still, these schemes lack the further consideration of granularity and traceability of the permission delegation. To this end, this article proposes a flexible and fine-grained CP-ABE key delegation approach that supports white-box traceability. In this approach, the key delegator first examines the relations between the data objects, read permission thereof that he intends to delegate, and the attributes associated with the access policies of these data objects. Then he chooses a minimal attribute set from his attributes according to the principle of least privilege. He constructs the delegation key with the minimal attribute set. Thus, we can achieve the shortest delegation key and minimize the time of key delegation under the premise of guaranteeing the delegator's access control requirement. The Key Generation Center (KGC) then embeds the delegatee's identity into the key to trace the route of the delegation key. Our approach prevents the delegatee from combining his existing key with the new delegation key to access unauthorized data objects. Theoretical analysis and test results show that our approach helps the KGC transfer some of its burdensome key generation tasks to regular users (delegators) to accommodate more users.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.6 s.109
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• pp.725-732
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• 2006

RBAC(Role-Based Access Control) has advantages in managing access controls, because it offers the role inheritance and separation of duty in role hierarchy structures. However, RBAC does not process delegation of permission effectively that occurs frequently in the real world. This paper proposes an Advanced Permission-Based Delegation Model(APBDM) that guarantees permanency of delegated permissions and does not violate security principle of least privilege and separation of duty. APBDM, based on the well-known RBAC96, supports both user-to-user and role-to-role delegation. A delegator can give permission to a specific person, that is delegatee, and the permission can be withdrawn whenever the delegator wants. Our model is analyzed and shown to be effective in the present paper.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.163-171
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• 2010

RBAC(Role-Based Access Control) has advantages in managing access controls, because it offers the role inheritance and separation of duty in role hierarchy structures. Delegation is a mechanism of assigning access rights to a user. RBDM0 and RDM2000 models deal with user-to-user delegation. The unit of delegation in them is a role. However, RBAC does not process delegation of Role or Permission effectively that occurs frequently in the real world. This paper proposes a Time Constraints Permission-Based Delegation Model(TCPBDM) that guarantees permanency of delegated permissions and does not violate security principle of least privilege and separation of duty. TCPBDM, based on the well-known RBAC96, supports both user-to-user and role-to-role delegation with time constraints. A delegator can give permission to a specific person, that is delegatee, and the permission can be withdrawn whenever the delegator wants. Our model is analyzed and shown to be effective in the present paper.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.107-114
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• 2022

Delegation is a powerful mechanism that allocates access rights to users to provide flexible and dynamic access control decisions. It is also particularly useful in a distributed environment. Among the representative delegation models, the RBDM0 and RDM2000 models are role delegation as the user to user delegation. However, In RBAC, the concept of inheritance of the role class is not well harmonized with the management rules of the actual corporate organization. In this paper, we propose an Adding Attributes on Permission-Based Delegation Model (ABDM) that guarantees the permanence of delegated permissions. It does not violate the separation of duty and security principle of least privilege. ABDM based on RBAC model, supports both the role to role and user to user delegation with an attribute. whenever the delegator wants the permission can be withdrawn, and A delegator can give permission to a delegatee.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2003

In the distributed-computing environment, applications or users have to share resources and communicate with each other in order to perform their jobs more efficiently. In this case, it is important to keep resources and information integrity from the unexpected use by the unauthorized user. Therefore, there is a steady increase in need for a reasonable way to authentication and access control of distributed-shared resources. In RBAC, there are role hierarchies in which a higher case role can perform permissions of a lower case role. No vise versa. Actually, however, it is necessary for a lower case role to perform a higher case role's permission, which is not allowed to a lower case role basically. In this paper, we will propose a permission delegation method, which is a permission delegation server, and a permission delegation protocols with the secret key system. As the result of a permission delegation, junior roles can perform senior role's permissions or senior role itself on the exceptional condition in a dedicated interval.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.21-28
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• 2009

Role-Based Access Control Policy has a role hierarchies in which a higher case role can perform permissions of a lower case role. However, it is necessary for a lower case role to perform a higher case role's permission, which is not allowed to a lower case role, basically. In this paper propose a temporary permission delegation method. As the result of a temporary permission delegation, junior roles can perform senior roles' permissions in a dedicated interval.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.17-30
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• 2006

With the wide acceptance of the Internet and the Web, volumes of information and related users have increased and companies have become to need security mechanisms to effectively protect important information for business activities and security problems have become increasingly difficult. This paper proposes a improved access control model for access control enforcement in enterprise environments through the integration of the temporal constraint character of the GT-RBAC model. sub-role hierarchies concept and PBDM(Permission Based Delegation Model). The proposed model. called Extended GT-RBAC(Extended Generalized Temporal Role Based Access Control) delegation Model. supports characteristics of GTRBAC model such as of temporal constraint, various time-constrained cardinality, control flow dependency and separation of duty constraints (SoDs). Also it supports conditional inheritance based on the degree of inheritance and business characteristics by using sub-roles hierarchies and supports permission based delegation, user to user delegation, role to role delegation, multi-step delegation and temporal delegation by using PBDM.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.11C no.6 s.95
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• pp.725-730
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• 2004

Separation of Duty(SOD), with delegation, is one of important security principles in access control area. The role-based access control model adopts SOD principle, but it has some problems; SOD concept is inconsistent with role hierarchy, permissions that have no relation with SOD may be restricted, and delegation may violate SOD. We propose permission-based SOD model on role-based access control. We establishes SOD as a set of permissions instead of role level SOD. Furthermore we propose a principle of role activation. It solves SOD problems of RBAC and supports easy implementation of SOD policy.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.14C no.1 s.111
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• pp.65-72
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• 2007

The existing RBAC models are not sufficient for managing delegations or separation of roles. Researches have been done on RBDM(Role Based Delegation Model) that deal with delegating role or permission to other users. In this paper, we divide the delegated roles into two groups: periodic and temporary delegation roles. When a role is delegated, a time period is assigned together, which is used to revoke the permission of delegated role automatically. In our model, the role of monotonic delegation by an original user can be revoked at any time in case of malicious use by the delegated user. The contribution of our model is that the malicious use of delegated role can be prohibited and security vulnerability in the role hierarchy due to role delegations can be alleviated. The proposed model, T RBDM(Time out Based RBDM) is analyzed and compared with the conventional models, such as RBDM0, RBDM1 and PBDM. Our model shows an advantage over other models in terms of security robustness.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.129-138
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• 2003

Role-Based Access Control(RBAC) model is becoming a promising model for enterprise environments with various organization structures. In terms of role hierarchy, each senior role inherits all the permissions of its junior roles in the role hierarchy, and a user who is a member of senior role is authorized to carry out the inherited permissions as well as his/her own ones. But there is a possibility for senior role members to abuse permissions. Since senior role members need not have all the authority of junior roles in the real world, enterprise environments require a restricted inheritance rather than a unconditional or blocked inheritance. In this paper, we propose a new role-based delegation model using the role hierarchy model with restricted inheritance functionality, in which security administrator can easily control permission inheritance behavior using sub-roles. Also, we describe how role-based user-to-user, role-to-role delegations are accomplished in the model and the characteristics of the proposed role-based delegation model.