The Human Rights Act (HRA) has long been hailed for solving the historic tension between judicial oversight of rights protection and democratic legitimacy through ‘elegant’ ‘ingenious schem...

This paper presents an authorization scheme for large-scale networks that involves programming models and tools represented by Web, Java and CORBA. The authorization scheme is based on structures and concepts introduced in Web, Java and CORBA for security. A discretionary prototype is presented here, where the solutions adopted involving a concrete scheme are discussed. This scheme was develope...

This paper presents a CORBA Security discretionary prototype developed in the context of JaCoWeb Security Project. JaCoWeb Security Project is developing an authorization scheme for large-scale networks that is based on structures and concepts introduced in Web, Java and CORBA for security. This scheme is being developed in order to deal with management of security policies in large-scale netwo...

While Mandatory Access Controls (MAC) are appropriate for multilevel secure military applications, Discretionary Access Controls (DAC) are often perceived as meeting the security processing needs of industry and civilian government. This paper argues that reliance on DAC as the principal method of access control is unfounded and inappropriate for many commercial and civilian government organiza...

This paper examines how server marketing claims of high reliability (e.g., 99.999%) stack up against real world data measurements. Our goals were to: measure discretionary NFS data availability, compare data availability between standalone and clustered systems, and draw some conclusions about best practices for customers. We explain our methodology for measuring, filtering, and categorizing av...