Authorization in Distributed Systems: A New Approach1

In most existing systems, authorization is specified using some low-level system-specific mechanisms, e.g., protection bits, capabilities and access control lists. We argue that authorization is an independent semantic concept that must be separated

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Thomas Y. C. Woo, Simon S. Lam (1993). "Authorization in Distributed Systems: A New Approach1". Journal of Computer Security. https://doi.org/10.3233/jcs-1993-22-304