@inproceedings{36072ef790f848d093715492dc71c0ea,
title = "DL-BAC: Distributed ledger based access control for web applications",
abstract = "Since Internet based applications have become the norm for most users, security has become a bigger concern than ever before, especially for applications like social networking and cloud based storage. Access control is one of the key techniques that can mitigate security concerns for web based applications. However, most existing access control mechanisms require a trusted party, which are vulnerable to many threats including malicious insiders and single point failure. In response to these challenges, we propose DL-BAC, a novel access control system based on the distributed ledger. DL-BAC robustly enforces access control policies without depending on a single trusted party. We also provide an extension of DL-BAC that is privacy respecting and evaluate the performance of DL-BAC to show its practicability.",
keywords = "Distributed ledger, Security, Web application",
author = "Lei Xu and Zhimin Gao and Lin Chen and Yang Lu and Nolan Shah and Weidong Shi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2), published under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License.; 26th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2017 Companion ; Conference date: 03-04-2017 Through 07-04-2017",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1145/3041021.3053897",
language = "English",
series = "26th International World Wide Web Conference 2017, WWW 2017 Companion",
publisher = "International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee",
pages = "1445--1450",
booktitle = "26th International World Wide Web Conference 2017, WWW 2017 Companion",
}