Self-Enforcing Access Control for Encrypted RDF. Fernández, J., Kirrane, S., Polleres, A., & Steyskal, S. In Proceedings of the 14th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2017), volume 10249, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 607–622, Portorož, Slovenia, May, 2017. Springer.
Self-Enforcing Access Control for Encrypted RDF [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
The amount of raw data exchanged via web protocols is steadily increasing. Although the Linked Data infrastructure could potentially be used to selectively share RDF data with different individuals or organisations, the primary focus remains on the unrestricted sharing of public data. In order to extend the Linked Data paradigm to cater for closed data, there is a need to augment the existing infrastructure with robust security mechanisms. At the most basic level both access control and encryption mechanisms are required. In this paper, we propose a flexible and dynamic architecture for securely storing and maintaining RDF datasets. By employing an encryption strategy based on Functional Encryption (FE), in which data access is enforced by the cryptographic approach itself, we allow for fine-grained access control over encrypted RDF data while at the same time reducing the administrative overhead associated with access control management.

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