The Role of Trust Management in Distributed Systems Security


Published: Feb 20, 2000 Updated: Feb 20, 2000 Section: Network Security Library :: Auth. & Access Control Author: Company: Cambridge Protocols Workshop Printable Version Adjust font size: Rating: 3/5 - 4 Votes 1 2 3 4 5

In this paper we examine existing authorization mechanisms and their inadequacies. We introduce the concept of trust management, explain its basic principles and describe some existing trust-management engines, including PolicyMaker and KeyNote. We also report on our experience using trust-management engines in several distributed-system applications.

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