[security-dev] Entitlements Concept

[Anil Saldhana]

Another example would be something like Drools Guvnor where the display
of assets needs to be regulated. So instead of checking on individual asset
check, one call is made for the entire permission collection and the UI 
is rendered faster.

On 01/31/2014 09:43 AM, Anil Saldhana wrote:
> The idea is if rather than make 100 enforcement (Access Checks), you
> make one call and download
> the entitlements and then do local authorization checks.
>
> As an example, there is a mobile phone that has a rich native app. It
> connects to a server and downloads
> the entitlements on the fly. That way it can make local decisions as to
> what the permissions are, rather than
> make individual server access checks.  Useful in environments such as
> financial apps.
>
> On 01/31/2014 09:40 AM, Anil Saldhana wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>       any objections to getting the Entitlements Manager concept into
>> PicketLink Authorization?  That way we cover all based with both Fine
>> Grained Authorization (Permissions API/Implementation) as well as
>> download of entitlements.
>> My previous prototype:
>> https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/SECURITY/EntitlementsManager
>> (there are bugs in the test case which I will fix)
>>
>> While the FGA is what I call the Enforcement Model, the
>> EntitlementsManager concept is what I call the Entitlement Model.
>>
>> I am currently writing a specification at OASIS for this:
>> https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=52098&wg_abbrev=cloudauthz
>>
>> Regards,
>> Anil
>>