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WebDAVA: An Administrator-Free Approach To Web File-Sharing

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WebDAVA: An Administrator-Free Approach To Web File-Sharing
Collaboration over the Internet depends on the ability of the members of a group to exchange data in a secure yet unobtrusive manner. WebDAVA is a system that allows users to define their own access-control policies to network resources that they control, enabling secure data sharing within an enterprise. Our design allows users to selectively give fine-grain access to their resources without involving their system administrators. We accomplish this by using authorization credentials that define the users’ privileges. Our prototype implements a file-sharing service, where users maintain sensitive-information folders and can allow others to access parts of these. Clients interact with the server over HTTP via a Java applet that transparently handles credential management. This mechanism allows users to share information with users not a priori known to the system, enabling administrator-free management. This work was supported by DARPA and NSF under Contracts F39502-99-1-0512-MOD...
Alexander Levine, Vassilis Prevelakis, John Ioanni
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Type Conference
Year 2003
Where WETICE
Authors Alexander Levine, Vassilis Prevelakis, John Ioannidis, Sotiris Ioannidis, Angelos D. Keromytis
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