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Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

SDSI - A Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure

Author

Ronald L. Rivest,Butler Lampson

Entry type

techreport

Abstract

We propose a new distributed security infrastucture, called SDSI (pronounced "Sudsy"). SDSI combines a simple public-key infrastructure design with a means of defining groups and issuing group-membership certificates. SDSI's groups provides simple, clear terminology for defining access-control lists and security policies. SDSI's design emphasizes linked local name spaces rather than a hierarchical global name space.

Date

1996 – April – 30

URL

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/68726/acrobat.pdf

Key alpha

Rivest

Publication Date

2001-01-01

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