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Title | ||
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DAuth: Fine-Grained Authorization Delegation for Distributed Web Application Consumers |
Abstract | ||
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Web applications are becoming the predominant means by which users interact with online content. However, current authentication approaches use a single authentication credential to manage access permissions, which is too inflexible for distributed programs with unique security and privacy requirements for each component. In this paper, we introduce DAuth, an authorization mechanism that allows fine-grained and flexible control of access permissions derived from a single authentication credential for distributed consumers of web applications. We implement DAuth as a proxy for a Twitter social networking application within our distributed Elastic Application framework and find it introduces negligible overhead and requires only minor modification of existing applications. Through our evaluation, we demonstrate DAuth improves on existing web authentication mechanisms to support distributed web application consumers and can be implemented as a proxy to web applications that do not wish to develop their own implementation. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2010 | 10.1109/POLICY.2010.12 | Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
flexible control,current authentication approach,web authentication mechanism,access permission,authorization mechanism,web application consumer,web application consumers,fine-grained authorization delegation,single authentication credential,twitter social networking application,elastic application framework,web application,authorization,authorisation,social network,distributed application,elasticity,authentication,distributed applications,protocols,data privacy,web applications,internet,message authentication | Web development,World Wide Web,Authentication,Computer security,Computer science,Data Web,Web modeling,Web application security,Web application,WS-Policy,The Internet | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-0-7695-4238-6 | 7 | 0.73 |
References | Authors | |
6 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua Schiffman | 1 | 284 | 21.79 |
| Zhang Xinwen | 2 | 1695 | 104.61 |
| Simon J. Gibbs | 3 | 1799 | 467.09 |