Abstract
Security policies are one of the most fundamental elements of computer security. This paper uses colored Petri net process (CPNP) to specify and verify security policies in a modular way. It defines fundamental policy properties, i.e., completeness, termination, consistency and confluence, in Petri net terminology and gets some theoretical results. According to XACML combiners and property-preserving Petri net process algebra (PPPA), several policy composition operators are specified and property-preserving results are stated for the policy correctness verification.
This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China with Grant No. 10701030.
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Huang, H., Kirchner, H. (2009). Component-Based Security Policy Design with Colored Petri Nets. In: Palsberg, J. (eds) Semantics and Algebraic Specification. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5700. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04164-8_3
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