Title: Secure distribution and access of XML documents

Authors: Junqi Zhang, Vijay Varadharajan, Yi Mu

Addresses: Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. ' Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. ' School of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2500, Australia

Abstract: XML has been widely used for representation and storage of documents and their exchange over the internet. Security mechanisms for the protection of XML document sources and their distribution are essential. In this paper, we present a novel scheme for securing XML documents and their distribution over the internet. The proposed scheme has some distinct features. It requires only one private key for each user. Therefore, when a user leaves or joins the system, keys of all the other existing users in the system remain unchanged. This makes the proposed scheme more attractive, and hence particularly suitable for the dynamic distribution of documents over the internet.

Keywords: access control; encryption; key distribution; secure XML documents; secure distribution; document security; document protection; internet; secure key management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHPCN.2005.009423

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 2005 Vol.3 No.5/6, pp.356 - 365

Published online: 31 Mar 2006 *

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