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Towards a Secure Application-Semantic Aware Policy Enforcement Architecture

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Even though policy enforcement has been studied from different angles including notation, negotiation and enforcement, the development of an application-semantic aware enforcement architecture remains an open problem. In this paper we present and discuss the design of such an architecture.

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Nair, S.K., Crispo, B., Tanenbaum, A.S. (2009). Towards a Secure Application-Semantic Aware Policy Enforcement Architecture. In: Christianson, B., Crispo, B., Malcolm, J.A., Roe, M. (eds) Security Protocols. Security Protocols 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5087. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04904-0_5

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