On key assignment for hierarchical access control

Proceedings of the Computer Security Foundations Workshop

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 98-111

  Crampton, Jason ^a   Martin, Keith ^a   Wild, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY;

GENERIC KEY ASSIGNMENT; INFORMATION FLOW POLICY; KEY ASSIGNMENT SCHEMES;

ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 33947630349     PISSN: 10636900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSFW.2006.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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