Hi, I will present myself: my name is Firas Al Khalil. I am a PhD candidate in computer science at the university of French Polynesia, Tahiti. I work on security, more specifically on geographic data security.
In the course of my work, I plan to implement an access control model for GIS. It is an extension of an access control model called OrBAC. This extension has been developed here at our lab. (see references below). What I'm trying to do is an implementation of an architecture very similar to GeoXACML's architecture presented here [http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoXACML-Integration]. The image depicts a workflow with WMS. I intend to do the same for WMS and WFS. I downloaded GeoServer's source code, and tried to figure out how I can implement it but I was not successful (I am on the 2.4 branch). I tried to look at the GeoXACML module and instructions but I encountered several issues. It seems to be that they're talking about things that doesn't exist in GeoServer anymore, AND they are implementing deprecated classes. I contacted Jody Garnett on IRC, and he redirected me to this mailing list, and said that I can propose a community module, where I can get help from the experts on the subject. He also proposed that maybe I can help update GeoXACML's implementation, and will gladly help doing it. I contacted my advisor, since he's the main author of the OrBAC geographical extension, and he was OK to develop the open source module with the community, on a condition that "he get contacted by whoever is responsible" before the actual development takes place, so it could be somehow a "formal" collaboration. So here, I emptied my bag. I hope this can move forward. Thank you. *References* [1] Capolsini, P., Gabillon, A.: Security policies for the Visualization of Geo Data. Proceedings of the 2nd SIGSPATIAL ACM GIS 2009 International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS. (2009). [2] Gabillon, A., Capolsini, P.: Rule-based Policy Enforcement Point for Map Services. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS. (2010). [3] Gabillon, A., Capolsini, P.: Dynamic Security Rules for Geo Data. Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security, Springer. (2010). [4] Gabillon, A., Capolsini, P.: Enforcing protection mechanisms for geographic data. In Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS'12). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 185-202. (2012). -- Firas Al Khalil Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science GePaSUD Laboratory University of French Polynesia Tahiti, French Polynesia Tel: +689 836 532 (GMT -10) Mobile: +689 273 196 (GMT -10) email: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
