Attribute-Based Messaging

Abstract

Attribute-Based Messaging (ABM) enables messages to be addressed using attributes of recipients rather than an explicit list of recipients. Such messaging offers benefits of efficiency, exclusiveness, and intensionality, but faces challenges in access control and confidentiality. In this article we explore an approach to intraenterprise ABM based on providing access control and confidentiality using information from the same attribute database exploited by the addressing scheme. We show how to address three key challenges. First, we demonstrate a manageable access control system based on attributes. Second, we demonstrate use of attribute-based encryption to provide end-to-end confidentiality. Third, we show that such a system can be efficient enough to support ABM for mid-size enterprises. Our implementation can dispatch confidential ABM messages approved by XACML policy review for an enterprise of at least 60,000 users with only seconds of latency.

MCACM: A Cloud Storage Access Control Model for Multi-Clouds Environment Based on XACML

“…Thuraisingham et.al [3] proposed a cloud storage framework to solve the problem of increasing data in network, and implemented access control based on XACML in their framework to ensure secure data sharing. Other researchers [4,5] also proposed some schemes combined cryptology and XACML methods to protect data's confidentiality and secure access control simultaneously. While collaboration among multiple cloud storage services is the tendency of the development of cloud storage, because it can improve the availability of data stored in cloud [6].…”