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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 4:29 PM

Sample declarative access control policy

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
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Sunday, August 26, 2007 2:17 PM

Parser for SecPAL simplified English grammar now available!

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.microsoft.com/projects/secpal)
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:41 PM

A Java implementation of SecPAL?

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
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Saturday, July 07, 2007 5:43 PM

The IEEE Computer Security Foundations Conference

The 20th IEEE Computer Security Foundations conference is underway in Venice at the moment, and our friends from Microsoft Research in Cambridge (Moritz Y. Becker, Cedric Fournet and Andrew D. Gordon) presented the first paper of the conference - based
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:03 AM

Access Control Requirements for Grid Computing Environments

One question I hear a lot is "How does SecPAL compare with [InsertRandomSecurityTechnologyAcronymHere]?". Well the good news is that Marty Humphrey , Sang-Min Park, Jun Feng, Norm Beekwilder and Glenn Wasson from the Department of Computer Science at
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:40 PM

SecPAL Query Editor Now Available

A couple of people have remarked to us that they like the flexibility that SecPAL provides, but feel that it is difficult for people to get to grips with the API's when they first start evaluating SecPAL. For this reason Lonnie Wall (a consultant from
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:24 AM

Writing SecPAL Assertions In F# - Contd

In my earlier post I showed how SecPAL could be used to grant access to a particular user based on a token issued by an STS that we explicitly established a trust relationship with using the SecPAL "canSay" predicate. Now I am going to show you something
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Friday, June 15, 2007 4:22 PM

Writing SecPAL assertions in F#

I figured I would try to learn F# over this summer - and thought what better way to start than create a couple of SecPAL samples in F#. I thought this might help people that are interested in learning more about F# , or potentially F# users that are interested
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:01 PM

SecPAL v1.1 Now Available

Just a quick note to let everyone know that we have just released a minor update to our SecPAL library. In addition to a couple of minor bug fixes there are two features which I think you are really going to like. The first is an update to our grammar
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Monday, May 07, 2007 6:13 AM

SecPAL In The News

In my last post I promised to walk through a demonstration of SecPAL using a scenario that is challenging to implement using current technologies - but simple to implement using SecPAL. As timing would have it, rather than walking through the scenario
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Friday, April 20, 2007 2:33 PM

SecPAL - Access Control for Grid Computing Environments

It has probably been around 9 months since my last blog release where I described the release of our ASMX Service Factory. A lot has obviously happened since then - including the release of both WCF and the WCF Service Factory. So what have I been doing
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