Abstract. A recent paper presented an access control scheme for discretionary access controls with a decidable safety problem. This paper deals with the complexity analysis of that access control, and finds it to be, in its worst cases, PSPACE-complete, but polynomial time for practical cases. The PSPACE-hardness reduction uses the theory of succinct problems in a more general manner than circuit representation.
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