I happened to be up early this morning and shot some nice photos of the lunar eclipse that happened this morning.

In my previous post I mentioned that we have now released a parser for SecPAL that allows policies to be written in a human readable simplified English grammar. I thought it might be worth including an example - based on the scenario that was used in...

One of the great strengths of SecPAL is its unique support for multiple representations of a security policy; XML for interoperability; and a simplified English grammar for human readbility. The SecPAL v1.1 Research Release (available from http://research...

Anyone who has dealt with X.509 certificates when trying to design, test and deploy secure Web services will know what an ordeal it can be to locate certificates in various cert stores using different cert identifiers, modify security properties of the...

Panos, from the University of Newcastle just dropped me a note to say that he is making progress with his Java based SecPAL implementation - which is very exciting. I noticed that he has moved away from XSB and has decided instead to create his own custom...