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Compliance-Checking in the PolicyMaker Trust-Management System
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In this paper we present the notion of proof that is used in the current version of the PolicyMaker trust management system. We show that this notion of proof leads to a compliance-checking problem that is undecidable in its most general form and is NP-hard even if restricted in several natural ways. We identify a special case of the problem that is solvable in polynomial time and is widely applicable. The algorithm that we give for this special case has been implemented and is used in the current version of the PolicyMaker system.
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