{"title":"Hard Instances for Verification Problems in Access Control","authors":"Nima Mousavi, Mahesh V. Tripunitara","doi":"10.1145/2752952.2752959","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We address the generation and analysis of hard instances for verification problems in access control that are NP-hard. Given the customary assumption that P ≠ NP, we know that such classes exist. We focus on a particular problem, the user-authorization query problem (UAQ) in Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). We show how to systematically generate hard instances for it. We then analyze what we call the structure of those hard instances. Our work brings the important aspect of systematic investigation of hard input classes to access control research.","PeriodicalId":305802,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2752952.2752959","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We address the generation and analysis of hard instances for verification problems in access control that are NP-hard. Given the customary assumption that P ≠ NP, we know that such classes exist. We focus on a particular problem, the user-authorization query problem (UAQ) in Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). We show how to systematically generate hard instances for it. We then analyze what we call the structure of those hard instances. Our work brings the important aspect of systematic investigation of hard input classes to access control research.