Hecate, Managing Authorization with RESTful XML

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Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on RESTful Design - WS-REST '11. - New York, New York, USA : ACM Press, 2011. - pp. 51-58. - ISBN 978-1-4503-0623-2
Abstract
The potentials of REST offers new ways for communications between louse coupled entities featured through the Web of Things [12]. The binding of the disjunct components of this architecture creates security issues, such as the centralized authorization techniques respecting the independence of the underlying entities. This results in the question how authorization is performed respecting the flexibility of REST without any knowledge about the underlying resources. Nevertheless, possible knowledge about these resources should enable the authorization workflow to offer finer-granular permissions on substructures of the resources. With our new approach - we named Hecate- we offer a framework to assure simplified handling while keeping the potentials and flexibility of REST . We have designed an architecture based on XML with a flexible authorization mechanism on the one hand and optional resource-awareness on the other hand. The flexibility within the authorization work-flow bases on permission sets respecting the HTTP- verbs. Additional in-depth knowledge of the entity option- ally extends these permissions with resource-aware filters. Hecate offers not only great benefits because of its flexibility, but also because of the optional extensibility proved within the two reference implementations. With Hecate, we show that a centralized authorization mechanism combining independence and optional resource-based filtering extends the flexibility of REST rather than restricting it.
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REST XML Authorization
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Second International Workshop on RESTful Design - WS-REST '11, Mar 28, 2011 - Mar 28, 2011, Hyderabad, India
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ISO 690GRAF, Sebastian, Vyacheslav ZHOLUDEV, Lukas LEWANDOWSKI, Marcel WALDVOGEL, 2011. Hecate, Managing Authorization with RESTful XML. Second International Workshop on RESTful Design - WS-REST '11. Hyderabad, India, Mar 28, 2011 - Mar 28, 2011. In: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on RESTful Design - WS-REST '11. New York, New York, USA:ACM Press, pp. 51-58. ISBN 978-1-4503-0623-2. Available under: doi: 10.1145/1967428.1967442
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@inproceedings{Graf2011Hecat-12623,
  year={2011},
  doi={10.1145/1967428.1967442},
  title={Hecate, Managing Authorization with RESTful XML},
  isbn={978-1-4503-0623-2},
  publisher={ACM Press},
  address={New York, New York, USA},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on RESTful Design - WS-REST '11},
  pages={51--58},
  author={Graf, Sebastian and Zholudev, Vyacheslav and Lewandowski, Lukas and Waldvogel, Marcel},
  note={Link zur Originalveröffentlichung: http://ws-rest.org/2011/proc/a10-graf.pdf}
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