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A lattice-theoretic model for relational database security

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dc.contributor.author Melton, A
dc.contributor.author Shenoi, S
dc.date.accessioned 2018-05-23T10:31:54Z
dc.date.available 2018-05-23T10:31:54Z
dc.date.issued 1992
dc.identifier.citation Melton A & Shenoi S (1992) A lattice-theoretic model for relational database security. The South African Computer Journal, Number 7, 1992 en
dc.identifier.issn 2313-7835
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24033
dc.description.abstract It is often the case that a major concern with databases is security. In this paper we introduce a new model for database security. The basic idea of this new model is that answers to queries are based on equivalent data values and not on individual datum values. Sets of data are divided into equivalence classes, and queries are answered with respect to these equivalence classes and not with respect to the individual datum. Different users may be assigned different equivalence classes through which they can view and access the data, and thus our model has user views. Our user views serve the same purpose as the more commonly defined user views though ours are defined differently. A set of equivalence classes on a data set forms a partition, and thus our model uses partitions though in a different manner than is common in database security. In our model the elements of a partition are used to answer queries; they are not used to restrict the domain of the query. Since the collection of all partitions on a set has nice mathematical properties, collections of user views also have many nice mathematical properties. For example, we can often compare user views; and if two views are not comparable, we can find a best unifying view which is comparable with the other two. en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher South African Computer Society (SAICSIT) en
dc.subject Equivalence class en
dc.subject Lattice en
dc.subject Partition en
dc.subject Relational database en
dc.subject Security en
dc.title A lattice-theoretic model for relational database security en
dc.type Article en


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