Laboratorium - Summer Semester 2005

Emre Cakar

Cem Dogan

DEVELOPING AN EDITOR FOR SECURITY MANAGEMENT

This workplan correspond to a Summer Semester Research program where students choose a topic and they should investigate on it. It is composed of 7 milestones where they have to learn about the state of the art in the topic selected achieving some goals and they have to present a final work at the end.

When a transaction between two entities needs to be done, both entities will need some information from the other party. While current approaches relies on the client/server approach where one of the two entities is registered on the other, Automated Trust Negotiation denotes the process where both parties ask and disclose information whenever it is needed according to their own policies.

Editor for Security Management. Therefore, users and administrators need to specify in which way they want to protect their resources like for example services and credentials (e.g. a credit card). In addition, they should be able to use a simple and easy to manage application in order to facilitate their work. This software project has as a goal the implementation of an editor using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform as a bases which allows to easily achieve client applications like the following one:

The main goals of this work are:

• Apply Software Engineer techniques to a real project
• Develop a project following the software's lifecycle
• Learn how to document at each stage of the project and why
• Introduction to one of the most recent topics in security and access control: Trust Negotiation
• Implemenation with Java reusing existing tools and packages (Eclipse Rich Client Platform)

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