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Decentralized distributed data usage control

  • Technical University of Munich

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Abstract

Data usage control provides mechanisms for data owners to remain in control over how their data is used after it is has been shared. Many data usage policies can only be enforced on a global scale, as they refer to data usage events happening within multiple distributed systems: ‘not more than three employees may ever read this document’, or ‘no copy of this document may be modified after it has been archived’. While such global policies can be enforced by a centralized enforcement infrastructure that observes all data usage events in all relevant systems, such a strategy involves heavy communication. We show how the overall coordination overhead can be reduced by deploying a decentralized enforcement infrastructure. Our contributions are: (i) a formal distributed data usage control system model; (ii) formal methods for identifying all systems relevant for evaluating a given policy; (iii) identification of situations in which no coordination between systems is necessary without compromising policy enforcement; (iv) proofs of correctness of (ii, iii).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCryptology and Network Security - 13th International Conference, CANS 2014, Proceedings
EditorsDimitris Gritzalis, Aggelos Kiayias, Ioannis Askoxylakis
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages353-369
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9783319122793
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event13th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2014 - Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Duration: 22 Oct 201424 Oct 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8813
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2014
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityHeraklion, Crete
Period22/10/1424/10/14

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