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Title:
Access Control and Signatures via Quorum Secret Sharing
Authors: Moni Naor, Avishai Wool
Abstract:We suggest a method of controlling the access to a secure
database via quorum systems. A quorum system is a collection of sets
(quorums) every two of which have a nonempty intersection.
Quorum systems have been used for a number of applications in the area of
distributed systems.
We propose a separation between access servers which are protected and
trustworthy, but may be outdated, and the data servers which may all
be compromised. The main paradigm is that only the servers in a
complete quorum can collectively grant (or revoke) access permission.
The method we suggest ensures that after authorization is revoked, a
cheating user Alice will not be able to access the data even if many
access servers still consider her authorized, and even if the complete
raw database is available to her. The method has a low overhead in
terms of communication and computation. It can also be converted into
a distributed system for issuing secure signatures.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/1996/008
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