Attribute Based Messaging (ABM) enables message senders to dynamically create a list of recipients based on their attributes as inferred from an enterprise database. Such targeted messaging has several advantages such as improved efficiency, exclusivity, and intensionality (that is, addresses are more descriptive).  However, there are challenges for access control and encryption.  The project is addressing these problems using attribute-based security systems, particularly Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) and Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE).

People

• Rakesh Bobba
• Omid Fatemieh
• Carl A. Gunter
• Fariba Khan
• Arindam Khan
• Himanshu Khurana
• Manoj Prabhakaran

Publications and Dissertations

• Using Attribute-Based Access Control to Enable Attribute-Based Messaging,
  Rakesh Bobba, Omid Fatemieh, Fariba Khan, Carl A. Gunter, and Himanshu Khurana.
  IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '06) , Miami, FL, December 2006. [PPT] [BIB]

• Using Attribute-Based Access Control to Enable Attribute-Based Messaging
  Fariba Khan
  MS Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. [BIB]

UIUC Links

• Secure Web Services, Lecture by Carl Gunter for Advanced Computer Security (CS563) class. [PPT] [WMV ]
• ABM Demo, required codec.
• ISLPedia: Attribute-Based Systems
  

Recommended Reading

• Attribute-Based Encryption for Fine-Grained Access Control of Encrypted Data.
  Vipul Goyal, Omkant Pandey, Amit Sahai, and Brent Waters.
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '06), Alexandria, VA, November, 2006.
  
• Secure Attribute-Based Systems.
  Matthew Pirretti, Patrick Traynor, Patrick McDaniel, and Brent Waters.
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '06), Alexandria, VA, November, 2006.
• User Profile Management in Converged Networks (Episode II): "Share your Data, Keep your Secrets".
  Arnaud Sahuguet, Bogdan Alexe, Irini Fundulaki, Pierre-Yves Lalilgand, Abdullatif Shikfa, Antoine Arnail.
  ACM Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR '05), Asilomar, CA, January, 2005.
• Secure Role Based Messaging,
  David Chadwick, Graeme Lunt and Gansen Zhao Issrc.
  IFIP Conference on Communication and Multimedia (CMS '04), 2004.
• Identity Based Encryption from the Weil Pairing,
  D. Boneh and M. Franklin.
  SIAM J. of Computing, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 586-615, 2003.
  Extended abstract in proc. of Crypto '2001, LNCS Vol. 2139, Springer-Verlag, pp. 213-229, 2001.