摘要 |
An access control system and method in a web environment having pre-encrypted files on a web server decryption keys provided to authorised users and a trusted user proxy for controlling file access and decrypting files received, in which files are encrypted using a file key (FK), and the FK is encrypted using a Group Encryption Key (GEK), and the user proxy has a Group Decryption Key (GDK) to decrypt the FK and the file. Each encrypted file is labelled with an Access Control Expression (ACE) which indicates which users or groups of users are authorised to decrypt and observe the file; this provides a secure client server system having pre-encrypted documents on the web-server, released to a decryption proxy on the client side, which controls access to, and decrypts the documents the client is allowed to see.
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