In traditional framework,mandatory access control(MAC) system and malicious software are run in kernel mode. Malicious software can stop MAC systems to be started and make it do invalid. This problem cannot be solved ...In traditional framework,mandatory access control(MAC) system and malicious software are run in kernel mode. Malicious software can stop MAC systems to be started and make it do invalid. This problem cannot be solved under the traditional framework if the operating system(OS) is comprised since malwares are running in ring 0 level. In this paper,we propose a novel way to use hypervisors to protect kernel integrity and the access control system in commodity operating systems. We separate the access control system into three parts: policy management(PM),security server(SS) and policy enforcement(PE). Policy management and the security server reside in the security domain to protect them against malware and the isolation feather of the hypervisor can protect them from attacks. We add an access vector cache(AVC) between SS and PE in the vip OS,in order to speed up communication between the vip OS and the security domain. The policy enforcement module is retained in the vip OS for performance. The security of AVC and PE can be ensured by using a memory protection mechanism. The goal of protecting the OS kernel is to ensure the security of the execution path. We implementthe system by a modified Xen hypervisor. The result shows that we can secure the security of the access control system in the vip OS with no overhead compared with modules in the latter. Our system offers a centralized security policy for virtual domains in virtual machine environments.Keywords: hypervisor; virtualization; memo-展开更多
Currently,data security and privacy protection are becoming more and more important.Access control is a method of authorization for users through predefined policies.Token-based access control(TBAC)enhances the manage...Currently,data security and privacy protection are becoming more and more important.Access control is a method of authorization for users through predefined policies.Token-based access control(TBAC)enhances the manageability of authorization through the token.However,traditional access control policies lack the ability to dynamically adjust based on user access behavior.Incorporating user reputation evaluation into access control can provide valuable feedback to enhance system security and flexibility.As a result,this paper proposes a blockchain-empowered TBAC system and introduces a user reputation evaluation module to provide feedback on access control.The TBAC system divides the access control process into three stages:policy upload,token request,and resource request.The user reputation evaluation module evaluates the user’s token reputation and resource reputation for the token request and resource request stages of the TBAC system.The proposed system is implemented using the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain.The TBAC system is evaluated to prove that it has high processing performance.The user reputation evaluation model is proved to be more conservative and sensitive by comparative study with other methods.In addition,the security analysis shows that the TBAC system has a certain anti-attack ability and can maintain stable operation under the Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS)attack environment.展开更多
In the education archive sharing system,when performing homomorphic ciphertext retrieval on the storage server,there are problems such as low security of shared data,confusing parameter management,and weak access cont...In the education archive sharing system,when performing homomorphic ciphertext retrieval on the storage server,there are problems such as low security of shared data,confusing parameter management,and weak access control.This paper proposes an Education Archives Sharing and Access Control(EduASAC)system to solve these problems.The system research goal is to realize the sharing of security parameters,the execution of access control,and the recording of system behaviors based on the blockchain network,ensuring the legitimacy of shared membership and the security of education archives.At the same time,the system can be combined with most homomorphic ciphertext retrieval schemes running on the storage server,making the homomorphic ciphertext retrieval mechanism controllable.This paper focuses on the blockchain access control framework and specifically designs smart contracts that conform to the business logic of the EduASAC system.The former adopts a dual-mode access control mechanism combining Discretionary Access Control(DAC)and Mandatory Access Control(MAC)and improves the tagging mode after user permission verification based on the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments(ACE)authorization framework of Open Authorization(OAuth)2.0;the latter is used in the system to vote on nodes to join requests,define access control policies,execute permission verification processes,store,and share system parameters,and standardize the behavior of member nodes.Finally,the EduASAC system realizes the encryption,storage,retrieval,sharing,and access control processes of education archives.To verify the performance of the system,simulation experiments were conducted.The results show that the EduASAC system can meet the high security needs of education archive sharing and ensure the system’s high throughput,low latency,fast decision-making,and fine-grained access control ability.展开更多
This paper deals with the design of an intelligent access control system based on the fingerprint sensor FPC- 1011C. The design uses the S3C2410 and TMS320VC5510A as the system processor. A fingerprint acquisition mod...This paper deals with the design of an intelligent access control system based on the fingerprint sensor FPC- 1011C. The design uses the S3C2410 and TMS320VC5510A as the system processor. A fingerprint acquisition module and a wireless alarm module were designed by using the fingerprint sensor FPC1011C and GPRS module SIM100 respectively. The whole system was implemented wireless alarm through messages and GPRS-Internet in the GSM/GPRS web. In order to achieve the simple and high Real-time system, the μC-Linux system migration was also implemented.展开更多
Renewable Energy Systems(RES)provide a sustainable solution to climate warming and environmental pollution by enhancing stability and reliability through status acquisition and analysis on cloud platforms and intellig...Renewable Energy Systems(RES)provide a sustainable solution to climate warming and environmental pollution by enhancing stability and reliability through status acquisition and analysis on cloud platforms and intelligent processing on edge servers(ES).However,securely distributing encrypted data stored in the cloud to terminals that meet decryption requirements has become a prominent research topic.Additionally,managing attributes,including addition,deletion,and modification,is a crucial issue in the access control scheme for RES.To address these security concerns,a trust-based ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption(CP-ABE)device access control scheme is proposed for RES(TB-CP-ABE).This scheme effectivelymanages the distribution and control of encrypted data on the cloud through robust attribute key management.By introducing trust management mechanisms and outsourced decryption technology,the ES system can effectively assess and manage the trust worthiness of terminal devices,ensuring that only trusted devices can participate in data exchange and access sensitive information.Besides,the ES system dynamically evaluates trust scores to set decryption trust thresholds,thereby regulating device data access permissions and enhancing the system’s security.To validate the security of the proposed TB-CP-ABE against chosen plaintext attacks,a comprehensive formal security analysis is conducted using the widely accepted random oraclemodel under the decisional q-Bilinear Diffie-Hellman Exponent(q-BDHE)assumption.Finally,comparative analysis with other schemes demonstrates that the TB-CP-ABE scheme cuts energy/communication costs by 43%,and scaleswell with rising terminals,maintaining average latency below 50ms,ensuring real-time service feasibility.The proposed scheme not only provides newinsights for the secure management of RES but also lays a foundation for future secure energy solutions.展开更多
The increasing deployment of Internet of Things(IoT)devices has introduced significant security chal-lenges,including identity spoofing,unauthorized access,and data integrity breaches.Traditional security mechanisms r...The increasing deployment of Internet of Things(IoT)devices has introduced significant security chal-lenges,including identity spoofing,unauthorized access,and data integrity breaches.Traditional security mechanisms rely on centralized frameworks that suffer from single points of failure,scalability issues,and inefficiencies in real-time security enforcement.To address these limitations,this study proposes the Blockchain-Enhanced Trust and Access Control for IoT Security(BETAC-IoT)model,which integrates blockchain technology,smart contracts,federated learning,and Merkle tree-based integrity verification to enhance IoT security.The proposed model eliminates reliance on centralized authentication by employing decentralized identity management,ensuring tamper-proof data storage,and automating access control through smart contracts.Experimental evaluation using a synthetic IoT dataset shows that the BETAC-IoT model improves access control enforcement accuracy by 92%,reduces device authentication time by 52%(from 2.5 to 1.2 s),and enhances threat detection efficiency by 7%(from 85%to 92%)using federated learning.Additionally,the hybrid blockchain architecture achieves a 300%increase in transaction throughput when comparing private blockchain performance(1200 TPS)to public chains(300 TPS).Access control enforcement accuracy was quantified through confusion matrix analysis,with high precision and minimal false positives observed across access decision categories.Although the model presents advantages in security and scalability,challenges such as computational overhead,blockchain storage constraints,and interoperability with existing IoT systems remain areas for future research.This study contributes to advancing decentralized security frameworks for IoT,providing a resilient and scalable solution for securing connected environments.展开更多
Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption(CP-ABE)enables fine-grained access control on ciphertexts,making it a promising approach for managing data stored in the cloud-enabled Internet of Things.But existing schem...Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption(CP-ABE)enables fine-grained access control on ciphertexts,making it a promising approach for managing data stored in the cloud-enabled Internet of Things.But existing schemes often suffer from privacy breaches due to explicit attachment of access policies or partial hiding of critical attribute content.Additionally,resource-constrained IoT devices,especially those adopting wireless communication,frequently encounter affordability issues regarding decryption costs.In this paper,we propose an efficient and fine-grained access control scheme with fully hidden policies(named FHAC).FHAC conceals all attributes in the policy and utilizes bloom filters to efficiently locate them.A test phase before decryption is applied to assist authorized users in finding matches between their attributes and the access policy.Dictionary attacks are thwarted by providing unauthorized users with invalid values.The heavy computational overhead of both the test phase and most of the decryption phase is outsourced to two cloud servers.Additionally,users can verify the correctness of multiple outsourced decryption results simultaneously.Security analysis and performance comparisons demonstrate FHAC's effectiveness in protecting policy privacy and achieving efficient decryption.展开更多
Security attributes are the premise and foundation for implementing Attribute-Based Access Control(ABAC)mechanisms.However,when dealing with massive volumes of unstructured text big data resources,the current attribut...Security attributes are the premise and foundation for implementing Attribute-Based Access Control(ABAC)mechanisms.However,when dealing with massive volumes of unstructured text big data resources,the current attribute management methods based on manual extraction face several issues,such as high costs for attribute extraction,long processing times,unstable accuracy,and poor scalability.To address these problems,this paper proposes an attribute mining technology for access control institutions based on hybrid capsule networks.This technology leverages transfer learning ideas,utilizing Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers(BERT)pre-trained language models to achieve vectorization of unstructured text data resources.Furthermore,we have designed a novel end-to-end parallel hybrid network structure,where the parallel networks handle global and local information features of the text that they excel at,respectively.By employing techniques such as attention mechanisms,capsule networks,and dynamic routing,effective mining of security attributes for access control resources has been achieved.Finally,we evaluated the performance level of the proposed attribute mining method for access control institutions through experiments on the medical referral text resource dataset.The experimental results show that,compared with baseline algorithms,our method adopts a parallel network structure that can better balance global and local feature information,resulting in improved overall performance.Specifically,it achieves a comprehensive performance enhancement of 2.06%to 8.18%in the F1 score metric.Therefore,this technology can effectively provide attribute support for access control of unstructured text big data resources.展开更多
This study proposes a system for biometric access control utilising the improved Cultural Chicken Swarm Optimization(CCSO)technique.This approach mitigates the limitations of conventional Chicken Swarm Optimization(CS...This study proposes a system for biometric access control utilising the improved Cultural Chicken Swarm Optimization(CCSO)technique.This approach mitigates the limitations of conventional Chicken Swarm Optimization(CSO),especially in dealing with larger dimensions due to diversity loss during solution space exploration.Our experimentation involved 600 sample images encompassing facial,iris,and fingerprint data,collected from 200 students at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology(LAUTECH),Ogbomoso.The results demonstrate the remarkable effectiveness of CCSO,yielding accuracy rates of 90.42%,91.67%,and 91.25%within 54.77,27.35,and 113.92 s for facial,fingerprint,and iris biometrics,respectively.These outcomes significantly outperform those achieved by the conventional CSO technique,which produced accuracy rates of 82.92%,86.25%,and 84.58%at 92.57,63.96,and 163.94 s for the same biometric modalities.The study’s findings reveal that CCSO,through its integration of Cultural Algorithm(CA)Operators into CSO,not only enhances algorithm performance,exhibiting computational efficiency and superior accuracy,but also carries broader implications beyond biometric systems.This innovation offers practical benefits in terms of security enhancement,operational efficiency,and adaptability across diverse user populations,shaping more effective and resource-efficient access control systems with real-world applicability.展开更多
Data trading enables data owners and data requesters to sell and purchase data.With the emergence of blockchain technology,research on blockchain-based data trading systems is receiving a lot of attention.Particularly...Data trading enables data owners and data requesters to sell and purchase data.With the emergence of blockchain technology,research on blockchain-based data trading systems is receiving a lot of attention.Particularly,to reduce the on-chain storage cost,a novel paradigm of blockchain and cloud fusion has been widely considered as a promising data trading platform.Moreover,the fact that data can be used for commercial purposes will encourage users and organizations from various fields to participate in the data marketplace.In the data marketplace,it is a challenge how to trade the data securely outsourced to the external cloud in a way that restricts access to the data only to authorized users across multiple domains.In this paper,we propose a cross-domain bilateral access control protocol for blockchain-cloud based data trading systems.We consider a system model that consists of domain authorities,data senders,data receivers,a blockchain layer,and a cloud provider.The proposed protocol enables access control and source identification of the outsourced data by leveraging identity-based cryptographic techniques.In the proposed protocol,the outsourced data of the sender is encrypted under the target receiver’s identity,and the cloud provider performs policy-match verification on the authorization tags of the sender and receiver generated by the identity-based signature scheme.Therefore,data trading can be achieved only if the identities of the data sender and receiver simultaneously meet the policies specified by each other.To demonstrate efficiency,we evaluate the performance of the proposed protocol and compare it with existing studies.展开更多
With the growth of requirements for data sharing,a novel business model of digital assets trading has emerged that allows data owners to sell their data for monetary gain.In the distributed ledger of blockchain,howeve...With the growth of requirements for data sharing,a novel business model of digital assets trading has emerged that allows data owners to sell their data for monetary gain.In the distributed ledger of blockchain,however,the privacy of stakeholder's identity and the confidentiality of data content are threatened.Therefore,we proposed a blockchainenabled privacy-preserving and access control scheme to address the above problems.First,the multi-channel mechanism is introduced to provide the privacy protection of distributed ledger inside the channel and achieve coarse-grained access control to digital assets.Then,we use multi-authority attribute-based encryption(MAABE)algorithm to build a fine-grained access control model for data trading in a single channel and describe its instantiation in detail.Security analysis shows that the scheme has IND-CPA secure and can provide privacy protection and collusion resistance.Compared with other schemes,our solution has better performance in privacy protection and access control.The evaluation results demonstrate its effectiveness and practicability.展开更多
The Internet of Things(IoT)access controlmechanism may encounter security issues such as single point of failure and data tampering.To address these issues,a blockchain-based IoT reputation value attribute access cont...The Internet of Things(IoT)access controlmechanism may encounter security issues such as single point of failure and data tampering.To address these issues,a blockchain-based IoT reputation value attribute access control scheme is proposed.Firstly,writing the reputation value as an attribute into the access control policy,and then deploying the access control policy in the smart contract of the blockchain system can enable the system to provide more fine-grained access control;Secondly,storing a large amount of resources fromthe Internet of Things in Inter Planetary File System(IPFS)to improve system throughput;Finally,map resource access operations to qualification tokens to improve the performance of the access control system.Complete simulation experiments based on the Hyperledger Fabric platform.Fromthe simulation experimental results,it can be seen that the access control system can achieve more fine-grained and dynamic access control while maintaining high throughput and low time delay,providing sufficient reliability and security for access control of IoT devices.展开更多
In most existing CP-ABE schemes, there is only one authority in the system and all the public keys and private keys are issued by this authority, which incurs ciphertext size and computation costs in the encryption an...In most existing CP-ABE schemes, there is only one authority in the system and all the public keys and private keys are issued by this authority, which incurs ciphertext size and computation costs in the encryption and decryption operations that depend at least linearly on the number of attributes involved in the access policy. We propose an efficient multi-authority CP-ABE scheme in which the authorities need not interact to generate public information during the system initialization phase. Our scheme has constant ciphertext length and a constant number of pairing computations. Our scheme can be proven CPA-secure in random oracle model under the decision q-BDHE assumption. When user's attributes revocation occurs, the scheme transfers most re-encryption work to the cloud service provider, reducing the data owner's computational cost on the premise of security. Finally the analysis and simulation result show that the schemes proposed in this thesis ensure the privacy and secure access of sensitive data stored in the cloud server, and be able to cope with the dynamic changes of users' access privileges in large-scale systems. Besides, the multi-authority ABE eliminates the key escrow problem, achieves the length of ciphertext optimization and enhances the effi ciency of the encryption and decryption operations.展开更多
Organizations are adopting the Bring Your Own Device(BYOD)concept to enhance productivity and reduce expenses.However,this trend introduces security challenges,such as unauthorized access.Traditional access control sy...Organizations are adopting the Bring Your Own Device(BYOD)concept to enhance productivity and reduce expenses.However,this trend introduces security challenges,such as unauthorized access.Traditional access control systems,such as Attribute-Based Access Control(ABAC)and Role-Based Access Control(RBAC),are limited in their ability to enforce access decisions due to the variability and dynamism of attributes related to users and resources.This paper proposes a method for enforcing access decisions that is adaptable and dynamic,based on multilayer hybrid deep learning techniques,particularly the Tabular Deep Neural Network Tabular DNN method.This technique transforms all input attributes in an access request into a binary classification(allow or deny)using multiple layers,ensuring accurate and efficient access decision-making.The proposed solution was evaluated using the Kaggle Amazon access control policy dataset and demonstrated its effectiveness by achieving a 94%accuracy rate.Additionally,the proposed solution enhances the implementation of access decisions based on a variety of resource and user attributes while ensuring privacy through indirect communication with the Policy Administration Point(PAP).This solution significantly improves the flexibility of access control systems,making themmore dynamic and adaptable to the evolving needs ofmodern organizations.Furthermore,it offers a scalable approach to manage the complexities associated with the BYOD environment,providing a robust framework for secure and efficient access management.展开更多
In the security and privacy fields,Access Control(AC)systems are viewed as the fundamental aspects of networking security mechanisms.Enforcing AC becomes even more challenging when researchers and data analysts have t...In the security and privacy fields,Access Control(AC)systems are viewed as the fundamental aspects of networking security mechanisms.Enforcing AC becomes even more challenging when researchers and data analysts have to analyze complex and distributed Big Data(BD)processing cluster frameworks,which are adopted to manage yottabyte of unstructured sensitive data.For instance,Big Data systems’privacy and security restrictions are most likely to failure due to the malformed AC policy configurations.Furthermore,BD systems were initially developed toped to take care of some of the DB issues to address BD challenges and many of these dealt with the“three Vs”(Velocity,Volume,and Variety)attributes,without planning security consideration,which are considered to be patch work.Some of the BD“three Vs”characteristics,such as distributed computing,fragment,redundant data and node-to node communication,each with its own security challenges,complicate even more the applicability of AC in BD.This paper gives an overview of the latest security and privacy challenges in BD AC systems.Furthermore,it analyzes and compares some of the latest AC research frameworks to reduce privacy and security issues in distributed BD systems,which very few enforce AC in a cost-effective and in a timely manner.Moreover,this work discusses some of the future research methodologies and improvements for BD AC systems.This study is valuable asset for Artificial Intelligence(AI)researchers,DB developers and DB analysts who need the latest AC security and privacy research perspective before using and/or improving a current BD AC framework.展开更多
A deep learning access controlmodel based on user preferences is proposed to address the issue of personal privacy leakage in social networks.Firstly,socialusers andsocialdata entities are extractedfromthe social netw...A deep learning access controlmodel based on user preferences is proposed to address the issue of personal privacy leakage in social networks.Firstly,socialusers andsocialdata entities are extractedfromthe social networkandused to construct homogeneous and heterogeneous graphs.Secondly,a graph neural networkmodel is designed based on user daily social behavior and daily social data to simulate the dissemination and changes of user social preferences and user personal preferences in the social network.Then,high-order neighbor nodes,hidden neighbor nodes,displayed neighbor nodes,and social data nodes are used to update user nodes to expand the depth and breadth of user preferences.Finally,a multi-layer attention network is used to classify user nodes in the homogeneous graph into two classes:allow access and deny access.The fine-grained access control problem in social networks is transformed into a node classification problem in a graph neural network.The model is validated using a dataset and compared with other methods without losing generality.The model improved accuracy by 2.18%compared to the baseline method GraphSAGE,and improved F1 score by 1.45%compared to the baseline method,verifying the effectiveness of the model.展开更多
Big data resources are characterized by large scale, wide sources, and strong dynamics. Existing access controlmechanisms based on manual policy formulation by security experts suffer from drawbacks such as low policy...Big data resources are characterized by large scale, wide sources, and strong dynamics. Existing access controlmechanisms based on manual policy formulation by security experts suffer from drawbacks such as low policymanagement efficiency and difficulty in accurately describing the access control policy. To overcome theseproblems, this paper proposes a big data access control mechanism based on a two-layer permission decisionstructure. This mechanism extends the attribute-based access control (ABAC) model. Business attributes areintroduced in the ABAC model as business constraints between entities. The proposed mechanism implementsa two-layer permission decision structure composed of the inherent attributes of access control entities and thebusiness attributes, which constitute the general permission decision algorithm based on logical calculation andthe business permission decision algorithm based on a bi-directional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) neuralnetwork, respectively. The general permission decision algorithm is used to implement accurate policy decisions,while the business permission decision algorithm implements fuzzy decisions based on the business constraints.The BiLSTM neural network is used to calculate the similarity of the business attributes to realize intelligent,adaptive, and efficient access control permission decisions. Through the two-layer permission decision structure,the complex and diverse big data access control management requirements can be satisfied by considering thesecurity and availability of resources. Experimental results show that the proposed mechanism is effective andreliable. In summary, it can efficiently support the secure sharing of big data resources.展开更多
In response to the challenges of generating Attribute-Based Access Control(ABAC)policies,this paper proposes a deep learning-based method to automatically generate ABAC policies from natural language documents.This me...In response to the challenges of generating Attribute-Based Access Control(ABAC)policies,this paper proposes a deep learning-based method to automatically generate ABAC policies from natural language documents.This method is aimed at organizations such as companies and schools that are transitioning from traditional access control models to the ABAC model.The manual retrieval and analysis involved in this transition are inefficient,prone to errors,and costly.Most organizations have high-level specifications defined for security policies that include a set of access control policies,which often exist in the form of natural language documents.Utilizing this rich source of information,our method effectively identifies and extracts the necessary attributes and rules for access control from natural language documents,thereby constructing and optimizing access control policies.This work transforms the problem of policy automation generation into two tasks:extraction of access control statements andmining of access control attributes.First,the Chat General Language Model(ChatGLM)isemployed to extract access control-related statements from a wide range of natural language documents by constructing unique prompts and leveraging the model’s In-Context Learning to contextualize the statements.Then,the Iterated Dilated-Convolutions-Conditional Random Field(ID-CNN-CRF)model is used to annotate access control attributes within these extracted statements,including subject attributes,object attributes,and action attributes,thus reassembling new access control policies.Experimental results show that our method,compared to baseline methods,achieved the highest F1 score of 0.961,confirming the model’s effectiveness and accuracy.展开更多
A dynamic Web application, which can help the departments of enterprise to collaborate with each other conveniently, is proposed. Several popular design solutions are introduced at first. Then, dynamic Web system is c...A dynamic Web application, which can help the departments of enterprise to collaborate with each other conveniently, is proposed. Several popular design solutions are introduced at first. Then, dynamic Web system is chosen for developing the file access and control system. Finally, the paper gives the detailed process of the design and implementation of the system, which includes some key problems such as solutions of document management and system security. Additionally, the limitations of the system as well as the suggestions of further improvement are also explained.展开更多
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)ad hoc network has achieved significant growth for its flexibility,extensibility,and high deployability in recent years.The application of clustering scheme for UAV ad hoc network is impera...Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)ad hoc network has achieved significant growth for its flexibility,extensibility,and high deployability in recent years.The application of clustering scheme for UAV ad hoc network is imperative to enhance the performance of throughput and energy efficiency.In conventional clustering scheme,a single cluster head(CH)is always assigned in each cluster.However,this method has some weaknesses such as overload and premature death of CH when the number of UAVs increased.In order to solve this problem,we propose a dual-cluster-head based medium access control(DCHMAC)scheme for large-scale UAV networks.In DCHMAC,two CHs are elected to manage resource allocation and data forwarding cooperatively.Specifically,two CHs work on different channels.One of CH is used for intra-cluster communication and the other one is for inter-cluster communication.A Markov chain model is developed to analyse the throughput of the network.Simulation result shows that compared with FM-MAC(flying ad hoc networks multi-channel MAC,FM-MAC),DCHMAC improves the throughput by approximately 20%~50%and prolongs the network lifetime by approximately 40%.展开更多
基金supported by the National 973 Basic Research Program of China under grant No.2014CB340600the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No.61370230 and No.61662022+1 种基金Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University Under grant NCET-13-0241Natural Science Foundation of Huhei Province under Grant No.2016CFB371
文摘In traditional framework,mandatory access control(MAC) system and malicious software are run in kernel mode. Malicious software can stop MAC systems to be started and make it do invalid. This problem cannot be solved under the traditional framework if the operating system(OS) is comprised since malwares are running in ring 0 level. In this paper,we propose a novel way to use hypervisors to protect kernel integrity and the access control system in commodity operating systems. We separate the access control system into three parts: policy management(PM),security server(SS) and policy enforcement(PE). Policy management and the security server reside in the security domain to protect them against malware and the isolation feather of the hypervisor can protect them from attacks. We add an access vector cache(AVC) between SS and PE in the vip OS,in order to speed up communication between the vip OS and the security domain. The policy enforcement module is retained in the vip OS for performance. The security of AVC and PE can be ensured by using a memory protection mechanism. The goal of protecting the OS kernel is to ensure the security of the execution path. We implementthe system by a modified Xen hypervisor. The result shows that we can secure the security of the access control system in the vip OS with no overhead compared with modules in the latter. Our system offers a centralized security policy for virtual domains in virtual machine environments.Keywords: hypervisor; virtualization; memo-
基金supported by NSFC under Grant No.62341102National Key R&D Program of China under Grant No.2018YFA0701604.
文摘Currently,data security and privacy protection are becoming more and more important.Access control is a method of authorization for users through predefined policies.Token-based access control(TBAC)enhances the manageability of authorization through the token.However,traditional access control policies lack the ability to dynamically adjust based on user access behavior.Incorporating user reputation evaluation into access control can provide valuable feedback to enhance system security and flexibility.As a result,this paper proposes a blockchain-empowered TBAC system and introduces a user reputation evaluation module to provide feedback on access control.The TBAC system divides the access control process into three stages:policy upload,token request,and resource request.The user reputation evaluation module evaluates the user’s token reputation and resource reputation for the token request and resource request stages of the TBAC system.The proposed system is implemented using the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain.The TBAC system is evaluated to prove that it has high processing performance.The user reputation evaluation model is proved to be more conservative and sensitive by comparative study with other methods.In addition,the security analysis shows that the TBAC system has a certain anti-attack ability and can maintain stable operation under the Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS)attack environment.
基金supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.Nos.3282023017,328202251.RL H received the grant.
文摘In the education archive sharing system,when performing homomorphic ciphertext retrieval on the storage server,there are problems such as low security of shared data,confusing parameter management,and weak access control.This paper proposes an Education Archives Sharing and Access Control(EduASAC)system to solve these problems.The system research goal is to realize the sharing of security parameters,the execution of access control,and the recording of system behaviors based on the blockchain network,ensuring the legitimacy of shared membership and the security of education archives.At the same time,the system can be combined with most homomorphic ciphertext retrieval schemes running on the storage server,making the homomorphic ciphertext retrieval mechanism controllable.This paper focuses on the blockchain access control framework and specifically designs smart contracts that conform to the business logic of the EduASAC system.The former adopts a dual-mode access control mechanism combining Discretionary Access Control(DAC)and Mandatory Access Control(MAC)and improves the tagging mode after user permission verification based on the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments(ACE)authorization framework of Open Authorization(OAuth)2.0;the latter is used in the system to vote on nodes to join requests,define access control policies,execute permission verification processes,store,and share system parameters,and standardize the behavior of member nodes.Finally,the EduASAC system realizes the encryption,storage,retrieval,sharing,and access control processes of education archives.To verify the performance of the system,simulation experiments were conducted.The results show that the EduASAC system can meet the high security needs of education archive sharing and ensure the system’s high throughput,low latency,fast decision-making,and fine-grained access control ability.
文摘This paper deals with the design of an intelligent access control system based on the fingerprint sensor FPC- 1011C. The design uses the S3C2410 and TMS320VC5510A as the system processor. A fingerprint acquisition module and a wireless alarm module were designed by using the fingerprint sensor FPC1011C and GPRS module SIM100 respectively. The whole system was implemented wireless alarm through messages and GPRS-Internet in the GSM/GPRS web. In order to achieve the simple and high Real-time system, the μC-Linux system migration was also implemented.
基金supported by the Science and Technology Project of the State Grid Corporation of China,Grant number 5700-202223189A-1-1-ZN.
文摘Renewable Energy Systems(RES)provide a sustainable solution to climate warming and environmental pollution by enhancing stability and reliability through status acquisition and analysis on cloud platforms and intelligent processing on edge servers(ES).However,securely distributing encrypted data stored in the cloud to terminals that meet decryption requirements has become a prominent research topic.Additionally,managing attributes,including addition,deletion,and modification,is a crucial issue in the access control scheme for RES.To address these security concerns,a trust-based ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption(CP-ABE)device access control scheme is proposed for RES(TB-CP-ABE).This scheme effectivelymanages the distribution and control of encrypted data on the cloud through robust attribute key management.By introducing trust management mechanisms and outsourced decryption technology,the ES system can effectively assess and manage the trust worthiness of terminal devices,ensuring that only trusted devices can participate in data exchange and access sensitive information.Besides,the ES system dynamically evaluates trust scores to set decryption trust thresholds,thereby regulating device data access permissions and enhancing the system’s security.To validate the security of the proposed TB-CP-ABE against chosen plaintext attacks,a comprehensive formal security analysis is conducted using the widely accepted random oraclemodel under the decisional q-Bilinear Diffie-Hellman Exponent(q-BDHE)assumption.Finally,comparative analysis with other schemes demonstrates that the TB-CP-ABE scheme cuts energy/communication costs by 43%,and scaleswell with rising terminals,maintaining average latency below 50ms,ensuring real-time service feasibility.The proposed scheme not only provides newinsights for the secure management of RES but also lays a foundation for future secure energy solutions.
文摘The increasing deployment of Internet of Things(IoT)devices has introduced significant security chal-lenges,including identity spoofing,unauthorized access,and data integrity breaches.Traditional security mechanisms rely on centralized frameworks that suffer from single points of failure,scalability issues,and inefficiencies in real-time security enforcement.To address these limitations,this study proposes the Blockchain-Enhanced Trust and Access Control for IoT Security(BETAC-IoT)model,which integrates blockchain technology,smart contracts,federated learning,and Merkle tree-based integrity verification to enhance IoT security.The proposed model eliminates reliance on centralized authentication by employing decentralized identity management,ensuring tamper-proof data storage,and automating access control through smart contracts.Experimental evaluation using a synthetic IoT dataset shows that the BETAC-IoT model improves access control enforcement accuracy by 92%,reduces device authentication time by 52%(from 2.5 to 1.2 s),and enhances threat detection efficiency by 7%(from 85%to 92%)using federated learning.Additionally,the hybrid blockchain architecture achieves a 300%increase in transaction throughput when comparing private blockchain performance(1200 TPS)to public chains(300 TPS).Access control enforcement accuracy was quantified through confusion matrix analysis,with high precision and minimal false positives observed across access decision categories.Although the model presents advantages in security and scalability,challenges such as computational overhead,blockchain storage constraints,and interoperability with existing IoT systems remain areas for future research.This study contributes to advancing decentralized security frameworks for IoT,providing a resilient and scalable solution for securing connected environments.
基金supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2019YFB2101700)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62272102,No.62172320,No.U21A20466)+4 种基金the Open Research Fund of Key Laboratory of Cryptography of Zhejiang Province(Grant No.ZCL21015)the Qinghai Key R&D and Transformation Projects(Grant No.2021-GX-112)the Natural Science Foundation of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications(Grant No.NY222141)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China under Grant(No.22KJB520029)Henan Key Laboratory of Network Cryptography Technology(No.LNCT2022-A10)。
文摘Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption(CP-ABE)enables fine-grained access control on ciphertexts,making it a promising approach for managing data stored in the cloud-enabled Internet of Things.But existing schemes often suffer from privacy breaches due to explicit attachment of access policies or partial hiding of critical attribute content.Additionally,resource-constrained IoT devices,especially those adopting wireless communication,frequently encounter affordability issues regarding decryption costs.In this paper,we propose an efficient and fine-grained access control scheme with fully hidden policies(named FHAC).FHAC conceals all attributes in the policy and utilizes bloom filters to efficiently locate them.A test phase before decryption is applied to assist authorized users in finding matches between their attributes and the access policy.Dictionary attacks are thwarted by providing unauthorized users with invalid values.The heavy computational overhead of both the test phase and most of the decryption phase is outsourced to two cloud servers.Additionally,users can verify the correctness of multiple outsourced decryption results simultaneously.Security analysis and performance comparisons demonstrate FHAC's effectiveness in protecting policy privacy and achieving efficient decryption.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62102449).
文摘Security attributes are the premise and foundation for implementing Attribute-Based Access Control(ABAC)mechanisms.However,when dealing with massive volumes of unstructured text big data resources,the current attribute management methods based on manual extraction face several issues,such as high costs for attribute extraction,long processing times,unstable accuracy,and poor scalability.To address these problems,this paper proposes an attribute mining technology for access control institutions based on hybrid capsule networks.This technology leverages transfer learning ideas,utilizing Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers(BERT)pre-trained language models to achieve vectorization of unstructured text data resources.Furthermore,we have designed a novel end-to-end parallel hybrid network structure,where the parallel networks handle global and local information features of the text that they excel at,respectively.By employing techniques such as attention mechanisms,capsule networks,and dynamic routing,effective mining of security attributes for access control resources has been achieved.Finally,we evaluated the performance level of the proposed attribute mining method for access control institutions through experiments on the medical referral text resource dataset.The experimental results show that,compared with baseline algorithms,our method adopts a parallel network structure that can better balance global and local feature information,resulting in improved overall performance.Specifically,it achieves a comprehensive performance enhancement of 2.06%to 8.18%in the F1 score metric.Therefore,this technology can effectively provide attribute support for access control of unstructured text big data resources.
基金supported by Ladoke Akintola University of Technology,Ogbomoso,Nigeria and the University of Zululand,South Africa.
文摘This study proposes a system for biometric access control utilising the improved Cultural Chicken Swarm Optimization(CCSO)technique.This approach mitigates the limitations of conventional Chicken Swarm Optimization(CSO),especially in dealing with larger dimensions due to diversity loss during solution space exploration.Our experimentation involved 600 sample images encompassing facial,iris,and fingerprint data,collected from 200 students at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology(LAUTECH),Ogbomoso.The results demonstrate the remarkable effectiveness of CCSO,yielding accuracy rates of 90.42%,91.67%,and 91.25%within 54.77,27.35,and 113.92 s for facial,fingerprint,and iris biometrics,respectively.These outcomes significantly outperform those achieved by the conventional CSO technique,which produced accuracy rates of 82.92%,86.25%,and 84.58%at 92.57,63.96,and 163.94 s for the same biometric modalities.The study’s findings reveal that CCSO,through its integration of Cultural Algorithm(CA)Operators into CSO,not only enhances algorithm performance,exhibiting computational efficiency and superior accuracy,but also carries broader implications beyond biometric systems.This innovation offers practical benefits in terms of security enhancement,operational efficiency,and adaptability across diverse user populations,shaping more effective and resource-efficient access control systems with real-world applicability.
基金supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)funded by the Ministry of Education(No.2022R1I1A3063257)supported by the MSIT(Ministry of Science and ICT),Korea,under the Special R&D Zone Development Project(R&D)—Development of R&D Innovation Valley Support Program(2023-DD-RD-0152)supervised by the Innovation Foundation.
文摘Data trading enables data owners and data requesters to sell and purchase data.With the emergence of blockchain technology,research on blockchain-based data trading systems is receiving a lot of attention.Particularly,to reduce the on-chain storage cost,a novel paradigm of blockchain and cloud fusion has been widely considered as a promising data trading platform.Moreover,the fact that data can be used for commercial purposes will encourage users and organizations from various fields to participate in the data marketplace.In the data marketplace,it is a challenge how to trade the data securely outsourced to the external cloud in a way that restricts access to the data only to authorized users across multiple domains.In this paper,we propose a cross-domain bilateral access control protocol for blockchain-cloud based data trading systems.We consider a system model that consists of domain authorities,data senders,data receivers,a blockchain layer,and a cloud provider.The proposed protocol enables access control and source identification of the outsourced data by leveraging identity-based cryptographic techniques.In the proposed protocol,the outsourced data of the sender is encrypted under the target receiver’s identity,and the cloud provider performs policy-match verification on the authorization tags of the sender and receiver generated by the identity-based signature scheme.Therefore,data trading can be achieved only if the identities of the data sender and receiver simultaneously meet the policies specified by each other.To demonstrate efficiency,we evaluate the performance of the proposed protocol and compare it with existing studies.
基金supported by National Key Research and Development Plan in China(Grant No.2020YFB1005500)Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.M21034)BUPT Excellent Ph.D Students Foundation(Grant No.CX2023218)。
文摘With the growth of requirements for data sharing,a novel business model of digital assets trading has emerged that allows data owners to sell their data for monetary gain.In the distributed ledger of blockchain,however,the privacy of stakeholder's identity and the confidentiality of data content are threatened.Therefore,we proposed a blockchainenabled privacy-preserving and access control scheme to address the above problems.First,the multi-channel mechanism is introduced to provide the privacy protection of distributed ledger inside the channel and achieve coarse-grained access control to digital assets.Then,we use multi-authority attribute-based encryption(MAABE)algorithm to build a fine-grained access control model for data trading in a single channel and describe its instantiation in detail.Security analysis shows that the scheme has IND-CPA secure and can provide privacy protection and collusion resistance.Compared with other schemes,our solution has better performance in privacy protection and access control.The evaluation results demonstrate its effectiveness and practicability.
文摘The Internet of Things(IoT)access controlmechanism may encounter security issues such as single point of failure and data tampering.To address these issues,a blockchain-based IoT reputation value attribute access control scheme is proposed.Firstly,writing the reputation value as an attribute into the access control policy,and then deploying the access control policy in the smart contract of the blockchain system can enable the system to provide more fine-grained access control;Secondly,storing a large amount of resources fromthe Internet of Things in Inter Planetary File System(IPFS)to improve system throughput;Finally,map resource access operations to qualification tokens to improve the performance of the access control system.Complete simulation experiments based on the Hyperledger Fabric platform.Fromthe simulation experimental results,it can be seen that the access control system can achieve more fine-grained and dynamic access control while maintaining high throughput and low time delay,providing sufficient reliability and security for access control of IoT devices.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60873231Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant No.BK2009426+1 种基金Major State Basic Research Development Program of China under Grant No.2011CB302903Key University Science Research Project of Jiangsu Province under Grant No.11KJA520002
文摘In most existing CP-ABE schemes, there is only one authority in the system and all the public keys and private keys are issued by this authority, which incurs ciphertext size and computation costs in the encryption and decryption operations that depend at least linearly on the number of attributes involved in the access policy. We propose an efficient multi-authority CP-ABE scheme in which the authorities need not interact to generate public information during the system initialization phase. Our scheme has constant ciphertext length and a constant number of pairing computations. Our scheme can be proven CPA-secure in random oracle model under the decision q-BDHE assumption. When user's attributes revocation occurs, the scheme transfers most re-encryption work to the cloud service provider, reducing the data owner's computational cost on the premise of security. Finally the analysis and simulation result show that the schemes proposed in this thesis ensure the privacy and secure access of sensitive data stored in the cloud server, and be able to cope with the dynamic changes of users' access privileges in large-scale systems. Besides, the multi-authority ABE eliminates the key escrow problem, achieves the length of ciphertext optimization and enhances the effi ciency of the encryption and decryption operations.
基金partly supported by the University of Malaya Impact Oriented Interdisci-plinary Research Grant under Grant IIRG008(A,B,C)-19IISS.
文摘Organizations are adopting the Bring Your Own Device(BYOD)concept to enhance productivity and reduce expenses.However,this trend introduces security challenges,such as unauthorized access.Traditional access control systems,such as Attribute-Based Access Control(ABAC)and Role-Based Access Control(RBAC),are limited in their ability to enforce access decisions due to the variability and dynamism of attributes related to users and resources.This paper proposes a method for enforcing access decisions that is adaptable and dynamic,based on multilayer hybrid deep learning techniques,particularly the Tabular Deep Neural Network Tabular DNN method.This technique transforms all input attributes in an access request into a binary classification(allow or deny)using multiple layers,ensuring accurate and efficient access decision-making.The proposed solution was evaluated using the Kaggle Amazon access control policy dataset and demonstrated its effectiveness by achieving a 94%accuracy rate.Additionally,the proposed solution enhances the implementation of access decisions based on a variety of resource and user attributes while ensuring privacy through indirect communication with the Policy Administration Point(PAP).This solution significantly improves the flexibility of access control systems,making themmore dynamic and adaptable to the evolving needs ofmodern organizations.Furthermore,it offers a scalable approach to manage the complexities associated with the BYOD environment,providing a robust framework for secure and efficient access management.
文摘In the security and privacy fields,Access Control(AC)systems are viewed as the fundamental aspects of networking security mechanisms.Enforcing AC becomes even more challenging when researchers and data analysts have to analyze complex and distributed Big Data(BD)processing cluster frameworks,which are adopted to manage yottabyte of unstructured sensitive data.For instance,Big Data systems’privacy and security restrictions are most likely to failure due to the malformed AC policy configurations.Furthermore,BD systems were initially developed toped to take care of some of the DB issues to address BD challenges and many of these dealt with the“three Vs”(Velocity,Volume,and Variety)attributes,without planning security consideration,which are considered to be patch work.Some of the BD“three Vs”characteristics,such as distributed computing,fragment,redundant data and node-to node communication,each with its own security challenges,complicate even more the applicability of AC in BD.This paper gives an overview of the latest security and privacy challenges in BD AC systems.Furthermore,it analyzes and compares some of the latest AC research frameworks to reduce privacy and security issues in distributed BD systems,which very few enforce AC in a cost-effective and in a timely manner.Moreover,this work discusses some of the future research methodologies and improvements for BD AC systems.This study is valuable asset for Artificial Intelligence(AI)researchers,DB developers and DB analysts who need the latest AC security and privacy research perspective before using and/or improving a current BD AC framework.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Project(No.62302540)The Open Foundation of Henan Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Situation Awareness(No.HNTS2022020)+2 种基金Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province Project(No.232300420422)The Natural Science Foundation of Zhongyuan University of Technology(No.K2023QN018)Key Research and Promotion Project of Henan Province in 2021(No.212102310480).
文摘A deep learning access controlmodel based on user preferences is proposed to address the issue of personal privacy leakage in social networks.Firstly,socialusers andsocialdata entities are extractedfromthe social networkandused to construct homogeneous and heterogeneous graphs.Secondly,a graph neural networkmodel is designed based on user daily social behavior and daily social data to simulate the dissemination and changes of user social preferences and user personal preferences in the social network.Then,high-order neighbor nodes,hidden neighbor nodes,displayed neighbor nodes,and social data nodes are used to update user nodes to expand the depth and breadth of user preferences.Finally,a multi-layer attention network is used to classify user nodes in the homogeneous graph into two classes:allow access and deny access.The fine-grained access control problem in social networks is transformed into a node classification problem in a graph neural network.The model is validated using a dataset and compared with other methods without losing generality.The model improved accuracy by 2.18%compared to the baseline method GraphSAGE,and improved F1 score by 1.45%compared to the baseline method,verifying the effectiveness of the model.
基金Key Research and Development and Promotion Program of Henan Province(No.222102210069)Zhongyuan Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talent Project(224200510003)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62102449).
文摘Big data resources are characterized by large scale, wide sources, and strong dynamics. Existing access controlmechanisms based on manual policy formulation by security experts suffer from drawbacks such as low policymanagement efficiency and difficulty in accurately describing the access control policy. To overcome theseproblems, this paper proposes a big data access control mechanism based on a two-layer permission decisionstructure. This mechanism extends the attribute-based access control (ABAC) model. Business attributes areintroduced in the ABAC model as business constraints between entities. The proposed mechanism implementsa two-layer permission decision structure composed of the inherent attributes of access control entities and thebusiness attributes, which constitute the general permission decision algorithm based on logical calculation andthe business permission decision algorithm based on a bi-directional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) neuralnetwork, respectively. The general permission decision algorithm is used to implement accurate policy decisions,while the business permission decision algorithm implements fuzzy decisions based on the business constraints.The BiLSTM neural network is used to calculate the similarity of the business attributes to realize intelligent,adaptive, and efficient access control permission decisions. Through the two-layer permission decision structure,the complex and diverse big data access control management requirements can be satisfied by considering thesecurity and availability of resources. Experimental results show that the proposed mechanism is effective andreliable. In summary, it can efficiently support the secure sharing of big data resources.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Project(No.62302540),please visit their website at https://www.nsfc.gov.cn/(accessed on 18 June 2024)The Open Foundation of Henan Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Situation Awareness(No.HNTS2022020),Further details can be found at http://xt.hnkjt.gov.cn/data/pingtai/(accessed on 18 June 2024)Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province Youth Science Fund Project(No.232300420422),you can visit https://kjt.henan.gov.cn/2022/09-02/2599082.html(accessed on 18 June 2024).
文摘In response to the challenges of generating Attribute-Based Access Control(ABAC)policies,this paper proposes a deep learning-based method to automatically generate ABAC policies from natural language documents.This method is aimed at organizations such as companies and schools that are transitioning from traditional access control models to the ABAC model.The manual retrieval and analysis involved in this transition are inefficient,prone to errors,and costly.Most organizations have high-level specifications defined for security policies that include a set of access control policies,which often exist in the form of natural language documents.Utilizing this rich source of information,our method effectively identifies and extracts the necessary attributes and rules for access control from natural language documents,thereby constructing and optimizing access control policies.This work transforms the problem of policy automation generation into two tasks:extraction of access control statements andmining of access control attributes.First,the Chat General Language Model(ChatGLM)isemployed to extract access control-related statements from a wide range of natural language documents by constructing unique prompts and leveraging the model’s In-Context Learning to contextualize the statements.Then,the Iterated Dilated-Convolutions-Conditional Random Field(ID-CNN-CRF)model is used to annotate access control attributes within these extracted statements,including subject attributes,object attributes,and action attributes,thus reassembling new access control policies.Experimental results show that our method,compared to baseline methods,achieved the highest F1 score of 0.961,confirming the model’s effectiveness and accuracy.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foun-dation of China (60503036)
文摘A dynamic Web application, which can help the departments of enterprise to collaborate with each other conveniently, is proposed. Several popular design solutions are introduced at first. Then, dynamic Web system is chosen for developing the file access and control system. Finally, the paper gives the detailed process of the design and implementation of the system, which includes some key problems such as solutions of document management and system security. Additionally, the limitations of the system as well as the suggestions of further improvement are also explained.
基金supported in part by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation under Grant L192031the National Key Research and Development Program under Grant 2020YFA0711303。
文摘Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)ad hoc network has achieved significant growth for its flexibility,extensibility,and high deployability in recent years.The application of clustering scheme for UAV ad hoc network is imperative to enhance the performance of throughput and energy efficiency.In conventional clustering scheme,a single cluster head(CH)is always assigned in each cluster.However,this method has some weaknesses such as overload and premature death of CH when the number of UAVs increased.In order to solve this problem,we propose a dual-cluster-head based medium access control(DCHMAC)scheme for large-scale UAV networks.In DCHMAC,two CHs are elected to manage resource allocation and data forwarding cooperatively.Specifically,two CHs work on different channels.One of CH is used for intra-cluster communication and the other one is for inter-cluster communication.A Markov chain model is developed to analyse the throughput of the network.Simulation result shows that compared with FM-MAC(flying ad hoc networks multi-channel MAC,FM-MAC),DCHMAC improves the throughput by approximately 20%~50%and prolongs the network lifetime by approximately 40%.