Attribute-Based Messaging
Rakesh B. Bobbaa b, Omid Fatemieha b, Fariba Mahboobe Khana b, Arindam Khana b, Carl A. Guntera b, Himanshu Khuranaa b, Manoj Prabhakarana b
- aUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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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.
TL;DRThis article explores an approach to intraenterprise ABM based on providing access control and confidentiality using information from the same attribute database exploited by the addressing scheme, and demonstrates a manageable access control system based on attributes. (Semantic Scholar)