Distributed access control in CROWN groups

Security in collaborative groups is an active research topic and has been recognized by many organizations in the past few years. In this paper, we propose a fine-grained and attribute-based access control framework for our key project, CROWN grid. To avoid single point of failure and enhance scalability of the system, we employ a distributed delegation authorization mechanism. We successfully implement our proposed access control in CROWN grid, and evaluate this approach by comprehensive experiments. © 2005 IEEE