Decentralized authorization and data security in web content delivery
Author
Danfeng Yao, Yunhua Koglin, Elisa Bertino, Roberto Tamassia
Entry type
proceedings
Abstract
The fast development of web services, or more broadly, service-oriented architectures (SOAs), has prompted more organizations to move contents and applications out to the Web. Softwares on the web allow one to enjoy a variety of services, for example translating texts into other languages and converting a document from one format to another. In this paper, we address the problem of maintaining data integrity and confidentiality in web content delivery when dynamic content modifications are needed. We propose a flexible and scalable model for secure content delivery based on the use of roles and role certificates to manage web intermediaries. The proxies coordinate themselves in order to process and deliver contents, and the integrity of the delivered content is enforced using a decentralized strategy. To achieve this, we utilize a distributed role lookup table and a role-number based routing mechanism. We give an efficient secure protocol, iDeliver, for content processing and delivery, and also describe a method for securely updating role lookup tables. Our solution also applies to the security problem in web-based workflows, for example maintaining the data integrity in automated trading, contract authorization, and supply chain management in large organizations.
Date
2007
Booktitle
Symposium on Applied Computing. Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Key alpha
Bertino
Pages
1654-1661
Publisher
ACM
Affiliation
Purdue University
Publication Date
2007-00-00

