JP2009151361A - Policy generator, policy evaluation device, authentication server device, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To protect description of an access subject in an access control policy, without enciphering the description. <P>SOLUTION: This policy generator 200 calculates identification information not including selected identity information univalently from the identity information, out of the identity information received from an authentication server 100, prepares new ID information 20 including the identification information and not including the identity information, transmits a link request between the selected identity information and the new ID information 20, to the authentication server 100, updates the new ID information 20 to include link information containing received kana information 23 and identification information 24 of the authentication server, prepares access subject information 25 including the kana information 23 in the link information 22 and the identification information 24 of the authentication server and not including the selected identity information, and generates the access control policy P containing the access subject information 25. Resultingly, the problem to be solved herein is solved because the access subject information 25 in the access control policy P does not contain the identity information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to, for example, a policy generation device, a policy evaluation device, an authentication server device, and a program that can protect access subject information without encrypting the description of the access subject in the access control policy.

  In recent years, the importance of access control technology that executes control for access to specific information and processing based on authority information has greatly increased.

  According to the access control technology, it is possible to determine whether important information such as personal information can be read and whether important processing such as approval processing can be executed based on an access control rule or an access control policy. Yes. The access control rule is composed of authority information owned by the access subject (or subject), authority information, and action permission / inhibition pattern information. An access control policy is generally considered as a set of access control rules. Industrial standard specifications have also emerged as standard description specifications for access control policies (see, for example, Non-Patent Document 1), and access control policies have become widely used.

  The authority information is reference information for determining whether or not an action requested by the access subject is permitted, and indicates a target for which the action is permitted. Usually, the authority information is explicitly defined when the common term of the authority range owned by the access subject is large. On the other hand, when the common item of the authority range owned by the access subject is small, or when only the access subject has a unique privilege, the privilege information is not specified and the information that uniquely identifies the access subject is authorized. It often shows information. In the former case, there is known one that uses abstracted information such as a group or a role (role) indicating an authority range as authority information (for example, see Patent Documents 1 and 2). The latter is known that uses a user name, a user identifier, or the like as authority information.

The access control policy as described above describes authority information that can identify an access subject to target data such as a document file. This access control policy is distributed along with the target data.
Tim Moses, "OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) Version 2.0", OASIS Standard, 1 February 2005, [online], [Search May 17, 2007], Internet <URL: http: //docs.oasis- open.org/xacml/2.0/access_control-xacml-2.0-core-spec-os.pdf JP 2006-12117 A (39th paragraph, FIG. 6) JP 2000-207363 A (abstract) Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2006-338587 (60th paragraph, FIG. 1)

  However, in the above access control technology, one of the problems is that the authority information about the access subject may appear in the access control policy. For example, in Non-Patent Document 1, as shown in FIG. 13, the subject of access, such as Bart Simpson's email name “bs@simpsons.com”, is directly used as the subject 1 of the access control policy. Authority information 2 to be identified is described (see Non-Patent Document 1, page 25).

  Here, the authority information related to the access subject is often sensitive information such as a user identifier such as a user ID or a user name. However, if the access control policy can be read by an unspecified number of people, information on the access subject can also be read by an unspecified number of people. This leads to inconvenience that sensitive information about the access subject is leaked.

  From the viewpoint of solving this inconvenience, a technique for protecting an access control policy by a process such as encryption is known (see, for example, Patent Document 3). However, according to the inventor's consideration, the following problems 1 to 3 remain.

(First issue)
The first problem is that if the access control policy is protected by processing such as encryption, the management due to the complexity of key management will occur when the number of systems increases under a situation where the access control policy is shared among a plurality of systems. The burden is increased. Further, when the key is leaked, sensitive authority information described in the access control policy is leaked.

(Second problem)
The second problem is that authority information such as groups and roles that conceal users is suitable when each access entity has a large common term in the authority range from the viewpoint of reducing management costs. This is considered to be unsuitable when the authority cannot be equivalenced or when the number of equivalences is small. For this reason, depending on the application status of the access control policy, if you want to control access in units of individual access subjects, you have to write sensitive information in the access control policy, potentially posing the risk of information leakage become.

(Third issue)
The third problem is that the access control policy creator needs to manage information (ID information) related to the access subject. This is fine for a single administrative domain. On the other hand, in the case of a plurality of management domains (for example, between different corporate organizations), it is necessary to manage the information of the access subject in the partner management domain, so the cost for protection management and information consistency maintenance for the access subject information is required. Is expected to increase.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and a policy generation device, a policy evaluation device, an authentication server device, and a program capable of protecting access subject information without encrypting the description of the access subject in the access control policy The purpose is to provide.

  Another object of the present invention is to provide a policy generation device, a policy evaluation device, an authentication server device, and a program that do not carry the risk of information leakage even when it is desired to control access in units of individual access subjects. .

  Furthermore, another object of the present invention is to provide a policy generation device and a program in which a policy creator does not need to manage information about an access subject.

  A first aspect of the present invention is a policy generation device for generating an access control policy including access main body information corresponding to any one of the above-mentioned identity information, capable of communicating with an authentication server device that manages the access subject's identification information. And a means for transmitting a list acquisition request for the identity information to the authentication server device, a means for displaying a list of the identity information received from the authentication server device, and a policy creator operating the list. Means for selecting any one of the displayed pieces of identity information; means for calculating identification information not including the selected identity information; and the selected identity information including the calculated identification information A means for creating new ID information that does not contain the new ID information and writing the new ID information to the storage means, and a linkage between the selected identity information and the new ID information Means for transmitting a request to the authentication server apparatus; means for receiving kana information consisting of random number information from the authentication server apparatus in response to transmission of the cooperation request; the kana information; and identification information of the authentication server apparatus The selected identity information includes means for updating new ID information in the storage means so as to include cooperation information including: pseudonym information in the cooperation information; and identification information of the authentication server device. A policy generation apparatus comprising: means for generating access subject information that does not include a message; and means for generating an access control policy including the created access subject information.

  A second invention is a policy evaluation apparatus capable of communicating with an authentication server apparatus that manages identification information of an access subject, authentication element information, random number information, and identification information of a policy generation apparatus, The policy generation device includes storage means, access entity information that does not include the identity information and authentication factor information, and includes the pseudonym information and identification information of the authentication server device, and identification information of the policy generation device Means for acquiring the access control policy generated in the step; and means for writing the pseudonym information, the identification information of the authentication server device, and the identification information of the policy generation device among the acquired access control policies to the storage unit; Means for transmitting an authentication request including identification information of the policy generation device in the storage means to an authentication server device; and after transmitting the authentication request, the authentication server. When a presentation request is received from a server device, a means for transmitting authentication factor information to the authentication server device by operation of the access subject, and identification of the authentication factor information and the policy generation device after transmitting the authentication factor information A means for receiving the kana information corresponding to the information from the authentication server device, a means for comparing the received kana information with the kana information in the storage means, and as a result of the comparison, when both match, Means for evaluating the acquired access control policy as valid.

  A third invention is an authentication server device capable of communicating with a policy generation device and a policy evaluation device, the storage means storing ID information including the identity information and authentication factor information of the access subject, and a list of the identity information When receiving the acquisition request from the policy generation device, the means for transmitting the identity information in the storage means to the policy generation device, the identity information selected by the policy generation device among the transmitted identity information, and A means for receiving a cooperation request with new ID information not including the identity information in the policy generation apparatus from the policy generation apparatus, and generating pseudonym information including random number information in response to the cooperation request. The identification information of the cooperation request is included so as to include cooperation information including means for transmitting to the policy generation apparatus, the pseudonym information, and identification information of the policy generation apparatus. Means for updating the ID information in the storage means, access entity information not including the identity information and authentication factor information and including the pseudonym information and the identification information of the authentication server device, and identification of the policy generation device When the policy evaluation device acquires an access control policy generated by the policy generation device so as to include information, an authentication request including identification information of the policy generation device in the access control policy is received from the policy evaluation device. Means for transmitting an authentication factor information presentation request to the policy evaluation device in response to the authentication request, authentication factor information received from the authentication server device, and authentication factor information in the storage unit. When the two match, the authentication unit that determines that the authentication process is successful, the authentication element information that determines that the authentication process is successful, and the authentication request Based on the identification information of the policy generation device, and when there is corresponding ID information as a result of the search, the policy evaluation is performed on the kana information in the linkage information included in the ID information. Means for transmitting to the apparatus.

  Each of the above inventions is not limited to “apparatus”, but may be expressed as “program”, “computer-readable storage medium storing a program”, and “method”.

(Function)
According to the first to third aspects of the invention, since the access subject information in the access control policy does not include identity information, the access subject information can be protected without encrypting the description of the access subject in the access control policy.

  In addition, since the access subject information in the access control policy includes the pseudonym information, the risk of information leakage can be eliminated even when it is desired to control access in units of individual access subjects.

  Furthermore, since the ID information managed by the policy generation device does not include identity information, it is not necessary for the policy creator to manage information related to the access subject.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to protect access subject information without encrypting the description of the access subject in the access control policy. Even if you want to control access in units of individual access subjects, you can eliminate the risk of information leakage. Furthermore, there is no need for the policy creator to manage information about the access subject.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration of an access control system to which an authentication server device, a policy generation device, and a policy evaluation device according to an embodiment of the present invention are applied. This access control system has a configuration in which an authentication server device 100, a policy generation device 200, and a policy evaluation device 300 are connected via a network Nw. Each of these devices 200, 200, 300 can be implemented by either a hardware configuration or a combination configuration of hardware resources and software for each device. As the software of the combined configuration, a program that is installed in advance on a computer of a corresponding device from a network or a storage medium and that realizes the function of the corresponding device is used.

  Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the authentication server device 100 includes an ID information storage unit 101, an ID information cooperation management unit 102, a user authentication unit 103, an identity information list providing unit 104, a communication unit 105, and A control unit 106 is provided.

  The ID information storage unit 101 is a storage device that can be read / written from each of the units 102 to 106. As shown in FIG. 3, the ID information storage unit 101 stores the identity information of the access subject (user), authentication element information, and linkage information. ID (Identity) information 10 to be included is stored.

  The ID information 10 includes a user identifier 11a, name 11b, post information 11c, authority information 11d, password 11e, linkage information 12, pseudonym information 13, and policy generation device identification information 14. Here, the identity information means attribute information that can specify an access subject such as a name and an employee number, and is here a name 11b, post information 11c, and authority information 11d. The post information 11c is information indicating a post in a company organization, for example. The authority information 11d is information indicating that it belongs to a specific group or a specific role (role), for example. From the viewpoint of facilitating policy setting by the policy creator, the role is preferably a role related to accessibility, such as an asset manager or a document file manager. The authentication factor information is information used for an authentication process with the policy evaluation apparatus 300, and here is a user identifier 11a and a password 11e. The identity information and the authentication factor information are stored in the ID information storage unit 101 in advance before the start of the access control policy generation operation. The linkage information 12 is stored in the ID information storage unit 101 during the access control policy generation operation.

  The cooperation information 12 is information indicating that the cooperation with the ID information in the policy generation apparatus 200 is maintained. If the cooperation information 12 is not maintained, the cooperation information 12 is deleted from the ID information 10. Note that the ID information stored in the ID information storage unit 101 in the authentication server device 100 includes identity information, and thus may be called identity ID information or real name ID information.

  The ID information cooperation management unit 102 does not include the identity information selected by the policy generation device 200 among the identity information transmitted from the communication unit 105 by the identity information list providing unit 104 and the identity information in the policy generation device 200. A function for receiving a request for cooperation with new ID information from the policy generation apparatus 200 via the communication unit 105 and a pseudonym information 13 including random number information in response to the cooperation request are generated. The ID information in the ID storage unit 101 corresponding to the identity information of the cooperation request so as to include the cooperation information 12 including the function to be transmitted to the policy generation apparatus 200, the pseudonym information 13 and the identification information 14 of the policy generation apparatus. 10 and a function to update.

  Further, the ID information cooperation management unit 102 also operates the ID information 10 on the ID information storage unit 101. The operation of the ID information 10 is generally the highest unit of the ID information 10 called an account, and the attribute information held by the ID information 10 is created, read, changed, deleted, invalidated, activated, etc. To perform.

  The user authentication unit 103 does not include the identity information and the authentication element information, and includes the access subject information including the pseudonym information and the identification information of the authentication server device, and the policy generation device 200 so as to include the identification information of the policy generation device. When the policy evaluation apparatus 300 obtains the access control policy generated in the above step, the authentication request including the identification information of the policy generation apparatus in the access control policy is received from the policy evaluation apparatus 300 by the communication unit 105, and the authentication request The authentication element information presentation request from the communication unit 105 to the policy evaluation apparatus 300 is compared with the authentication element information received from the policy evaluation apparatus 300 and the authentication element information in the ID information storage unit 101. When the two match, the authentication function that determines that the authentication process is successful, the authentication element information that determines that the authentication process is successful, and the authentication required On the basis of the identification information of the policy generating device in the ID, and when there is the corresponding ID information 10 as a result of the search, the pseudonym in the linkage information 12 included in the ID information 10 And a function of transmitting the information 13 from the communication unit 105 to the policy evaluation apparatus 300.

  Here, any user authentication method may be used as the authentication process. When the authentication is successful, the pseudonym information to be transmitted is preferably transmitted in a format included in the authentication information. This authentication information may be in an arbitrary format, but is preferably constructed by a standardized standard or specification such as an authentication assertion format of the OASIS SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) V2.0 specification.

  The identity information list providing unit 104 has a function of transmitting the identity information in the ID information storage unit 101 from the communication unit 105 to the policy generation device 200 when the communication unit 105 receives the identity information list acquisition request from the policy generation device 200. Yes.

  The list of identity information is information for displaying a list of identity information among the ID information in the ID information storage unit 101. As shown in FIG. 4, the list of identity information is related to identities such as name, title information, and authority information. The attribute information is information configured in units of ID information. The identity information list is also information indicating candidates for access subjects. The type of attribute information included in the identity information list may be determined in advance between the policy generation device 200 and the authentication server device 100, or may be determined by a request from the policy generation device 200.

  The communication unit 105 performs communication with external entity devices such as the policy generation device 200 and the policy evaluation device 300. When performing entity authentication in communication with an external entity device, it is preferable to perform this in the communication unit 105.

  The control unit 106 is a functional unit for controlling events and data in the authentication server device 100. An instruction is executed to each of the units 101 to 105 via the control unit 106 and data necessary for processing is transferred. In the following description, the description that the control unit 106 is interposed is omitted from the viewpoint of simplifying the description.

  Specifically, as shown in FIG. 5, the policy generation device 200 includes an ID information storage unit 201, an ID information cooperation management unit 202, an identity information acquisition unit 203, an identity information list unit 204, a policy generation unit 205, and a policy output unit. 206, a user interface unit 207, a communication unit 208, and a control unit 209.

  The ID information storage unit 201 is a storage device that can be read / written from each of the units 202 to 209, and stores the ID information 20 that does not include the identity information of the access subject, as shown in FIG. Here, the ID information 20 includes a user identifier '21, linkage information 22, pseudonym information 23, and identification information 24 of the authentication server device.

  The user identifier '21 is identification information calculated by the policy generation device 200.

  The linkage information 22 includes pseudonym information 23 and identification information 24 of the authentication server device. Cooperation here (ID cooperation) refers to associating two or more different ID information by the cooperation information. For example, if a certain ID information A and a certain ID information B are linked, the ID information associated with each other can be specified based on the linked information that the ID information A and the ID information B have. However, it is made impossible to specify other associated ID information (ID information B) only by the cooperation information that the single ID information has, for example, the cooperation information that the ID information A has. For this reason, it is assumed that ID information is associated using information that cannot be inferred from each ID information, such as kana information 23 described later.

  The pseudonym information 23 is temporary identification information agreed between the authentication server device 100 and the policy generation device 200. In the example in the present embodiment, the authentication server device 100 and the policy generation device 200 use one kana information, and the authentication server device 100 determines the kana information. Any technical means other than the example shown in the present embodiment may be adopted as the technical means for ID cooperation. In addition, the “kana information” may be read as information of an arbitrary name as long as it is “information indicating a name that is temporarily attached to the real name” such as “renaming information” or “fictitious name information”.

  The authentication server device identification information 24 is identification information that can uniquely identify the authentication server device 100. As a format for expressing such information, a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) or a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is known.

  Note that the ID information 20 stored in the ID information storage unit 201 in the policy generation device 200 includes kana information, and thus may be referred to as kana ID information.

  The ID information cooperation management unit 202 has a function of transmitting a cooperation request between the identity information selected by the policy setter and the new ID information 20 from the communication unit 208 to the authentication server device 100, and according to the transmission of the cooperation request. New ID information 20 in the ID information storage unit 201 so as to include cooperation information including a function for receiving kana information including random number information from the authentication server device, the kana information 23, and identification information 24 of the authentication server device. It has a function to update. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that linkage information 12 and 22 as shown in FIGS. 3 and 6 is used as an example of linkage of ID information. In FIGS. 3 and 6, the kana information 13 and 23 is the same information.

  The identity information acquisition unit 203 has a function of transmitting an identity information list acquisition request from the communication unit 208 to the authentication server device 100.

  The identity information list unit 204 has a function of displaying a list of identity information received from the authentication server device 100 by the communication unit 208 using the user interface unit 207. The identity information list is temporarily acquired information, and is preferably not stored in the ID information storage unit 201.

  The policy generation unit 205 has a function of selecting any one of the listed pieces of identity information by the operation of the policy setter (policy creator), and the selected identity information is stored in the ID information storage unit 201. A function for searching for existence, a function for calculating identification information (user identifier '21) that does not include the selected identity information, and new ID information that includes the calculated identification information and does not include the selected identity information. 20, the new ID information 20 is written in the ID information storage unit 201, the pseudonym information 23 in the cooperation information 22 of the ID storage unit 201, and the identification information 24 of the authentication server device are selected and selected. A function of creating access subject information 25 that does not include identity information, and a function of generating an access control policy P that includes the created access subject information 25. It is desirable that the identification information (user identifier '21) not including the selected identity information is uniquely calculated from the identity information.

  As shown in FIG. 7, the access control policy P includes access subject information 25, pseudonym information 23 ′, authentication server device identification information 24 ′, action information 26, resource information 27, and policy generation device identification information 28. Yes. Note that the action information 26 indicates the execution content of a process such as a read process or a write process. The resource information 27 is information indicating a resource to be accessed, for example, URL information indicating a specific file. Information other than the above includes environmental information indicating environmental conditions such as time and place for determining accessibility, condition information indicating arbitrary conditions for determining accessibility, and action contents to be executed The responsibility information to be shown may be described in the access control policy P.

  FIG. 8 shows an example in which the access subject information 25 is described as a subject element in XML (Extensible Markup Language) notation. The subject element includes XML-formatted pseudonym information 23 ′ including the value of the pseudonym information 23, and XML-formatted authentication server device identification information 24 ′ including the value of the authentication server device identification information 24.

  The policy output unit 206 is a functional unit for outputting the policy to the outside. The policy may be output as long as the policy evaluation apparatus 300 can acquire the policy. Preferably, it is stored in a repository such as a directory server and externally disclosed, or a policy is added to target data to be applied. Or you may output a policy with a message etc. via the communication part 208 of the policy production | generation apparatus 200 mentioned later.

  The user interface unit 207 is a functional unit for executing input and display for a user of the policy generation apparatus 200, that is, a policy setter. This function unit may be realized not only as a function unit in the policy generation apparatus 200 but also as a Web browser of a general Web system, a client / server system, or the like.

  The communication unit 208 communicates with external entity devices such as the authentication server device 100 and the policy evaluation device 300. When performing entity authentication in communication with an external entity device, it is desirable to perform this in the communication unit 208.

  The control unit 209 is a functional unit for controlling events and data in the policy generation device 200. The control unit 209 executes instructions to the units 201 to 208 and transfers data necessary for processing. In the following description, a description that the control unit 209 is interposed is omitted from the viewpoint of simplifying the description.

  The policy evaluation device 300 is a device that evaluates and executes the policy generated by the policy generation device 200. The subject who is the policy evaluation target is the user of the policy evaluation apparatus 300 (hereinafter, unless there is a special description, the description of the user refers to this user). Accordingly, the policy evaluation device 300 may be called a user device or a user terminal.

  Specifically, as shown in FIG. 9, the policy evaluation apparatus 300 includes a policy storage unit 301, a policy acquisition unit 302, a policy analysis unit 303, a user authentication client unit 304, a policy evaluation unit 305, a policy execution unit 306, and a control. An interface unit 307, a user interface unit 308, a communication unit 309, and a control unit 310 are provided.

  The policy storage unit 301 is a storage device that can be read / written from the units 302 to 310, and stores the information 23 to 28 in the access control policy.

  The policy acquisition unit 302 does not include identity information and authentication factor information, and includes policy information so as to include access entity information 25 including pseudonym information 23 and identification information 24 of the authentication server device, and identification information 28 of the policy generation device. This is a functional unit for acquiring the access control policy P generated by the generation apparatus 200 from the external entity apparatus. Here, the access control policy P includes action information 26 and resource information 27 in addition. A specific method for acquiring the policy depends on the output method of the policy output unit 206 in the policy generation device 200. In this embodiment, an example in which a policy is acquired from target data to which the policy is to be applied will be described as an example.

  The policy analysis unit 303 analyzes the access control policy P acquired by the policy acquisition unit 302, and among the access control policy P, the pseudonym information 23, the authentication server device identification information 24, the action information 26, the resource information 27, and the policy generation It has a function of writing the device identification information 28 in the policy storage unit 301.

  For example, when the policy is described in XML notation such as OASIS XACML V2.0, the policy analysis unit 303 performs processing to acquire the elements and attributes described in the policy, and their values as an object structure. Do. Information described in the analyzed policy is written in the policy storage unit 301 and then passed to the user authentication client unit 304 and the policy evaluation unit 305.

  The user authentication client unit 304 has a function of transmitting an authentication request including the policy generating device identification information 28 in the policy storage unit 301 from the communication unit 309 to the authentication server device 100, and after transmitting the authentication request, the authentication server device 100. When the communication unit 309 receives a presentation request from the communication unit 309, the function of transmitting authentication factor information (eg, user identifier and password) from the communication unit 309 to the authentication server device 100 by the operation of the access subject, and after transmitting the authentication factor information , The function of receiving the pseudonym information 13 corresponding to the authentication factor information (11a, 11e) and the policy generating device identification information 14 from the authentication server device 100 by the communication unit 309, and the received pseudonym information 13 of the policy evaluation unit 305 It has a function to send to.

  The policy evaluation unit 305 compares the kana information 13 received by the communication unit 309 with the kana information 23 in the policy storage unit 301, and when the comparison results in a match, the acquired access control policy P It has a function to evaluate as legitimate. Note that any means may be used for the action information 26 and resource information 27 evaluation means other than the evaluation of the access subject information 25 described in the access control policy.

  The policy execution unit 306 is a functional unit for requesting policy evaluation to the policy evaluation unit 305 when an access request for a control target is generated. Further, according to the policy effect obtained from the policy evaluation unit 305, the action for the control target is controlled via the control interface unit 307. The action for the controlled object may be obtained via any means. For example, there is a means for the policy execution unit 306 to acquire an action for a control target by using a listener function for acquiring an application event.

  The control interface unit 307 is a functional unit for controlling the control target based on the policy result output from the policy evaluation unit 305, and is operated by the policy execution unit 306.

  The user interface unit 308 is a functional unit for executing input and display for a user of the policy evaluation apparatus 300, that is, a user who requests access to a resource targeted for the policy. This functional unit may be provided only when interaction with the user of the policy evaluation apparatus 300 is required. For example, when the result of policy evaluation is returned to the user, or when the user explicitly requests the policy execution unit 306 for evaluation.

  The communication unit 309 performs communication with an external entity device such as the authentication server device 100. When performing entity authentication in communication with an external entity device, it is desirable to perform this communication unit 309.

  The control unit 310 is a functional unit for controlling events and data in the policy evaluation apparatus 300. The control unit 310 executes instructions to the units 301 to 309 and delivers data necessary for processing. In the following description, the description that the control unit 310 is interposed is omitted from the viewpoint of simplifying the description.

  Next, the operation of the access control system as described above will be described with reference to FIGS.

(Policy generation operation; FIG. 10)
[Step ST <b> 1] In the policy generation device 200, the user interface unit 207 inputs an identity information list acquisition request to the identity information acquisition unit 203 by an operation of the policy setter.

  [Step ST <b> 2] In the policy generation device 200, the identity information acquisition unit 203 transmits this identity information list acquisition request from the communication unit 208 to the authentication server device 100.

  [Step ST3] In the authentication server device 100, when the identity information list acquisition request is received by the communication unit 105, the identity information list providing unit 102 displays a list of the identity information among the ID information in the ID information storage unit 101. Create a list of identity information. Thereafter, the identity information list providing unit 102 transmits the identity information list from the communication unit 105 to the policy generating device 200.

  [Step ST <b> 4] In the policy generation device 200, when the identity information list is received by the communication unit 208, the identity information acquisition unit 203 sends the identity information list to the identity information list unit 204.

  The identity information list unit 204 sends this identity information list to the user interface unit 207. The user interface unit 207 displays this identity information list.

  [Step ST5] In the policy generation device 200, during the display of the identity information list, the user interface unit 207 selects one of the identity information from the identity information list by the operation of the policy setter, and the selected identity information is stored in the policy generation unit. To 205.

  In the policy generation device 200, the user interface unit 207 inputs action information, resource information, and the like to the policy generation unit 205 by the operation of the policy setter.

  [Step ST <b> 6] The policy generation unit 205 searches the ID information storage unit 201 for the presence of ID information associated with the selected identity information. Here, identification information is uniquely calculated from the selected identity information, and a search is performed based on the calculated identification information. For example, a hash value of the selected identity information is calculated, and the calculated hash value is used as identification information (user identifier '21). The calculated identification information is not limited to the hash value, and any identification information can be applied as long as it is obtained uniquely from the selected identity information and does not include the selected identity information. Yes. Note that the ID information storage unit 201 may be searched using the pseudonym information without using the identification information uniquely from the selected identity information. The pseudonym information may be included as an attribute of the identity information transmitted in the identity information list, and the selected identity information may be transmitted to the authentication server device 100 to acquire the pseudonym information. In this case, in [Step ST7], identification information unique within the policy generation device 200, such as a sequential number, is generated. In any case, it is only necessary to confirm whether the ID information 20 linked to the selected identity information exists in the ID information storage unit 201. If the ID information 20 linked to the selected identity information does not exist in the ID information storage unit 201 as a result of the search, the process proceeds to step ST7. If the identification information already exists in the ID information storage unit 201 as a result of the search, the process proceeds to step ST10.

  [Step ST7] The policy generation unit 205 creates new ID information 20 that includes the calculated identification information and does not include the selected identity information. The new ID information 20 and the selected identity information are sent from the policy generation unit 205 to the ID information cooperation management unit 202.

  [Step ST8] The ID information cooperation management unit 202 transmits a cooperation request between the identity information selected in step ST5 and the new ID information 20 in step 7 from the communication unit 208 to the authentication server device 100.

  In the authentication server device 100, when the cooperation request is received by the communication unit 105, the ID information cooperation management unit 102 generates pseudonym information 13 including random number information. The pseudonym information 13 is transmitted from the communication unit 105 to the policy generation device 200. Note that the cooperation method described in the present embodiment is merely an example, and any other means may be used as long as the mutual ID information 10 and 20 is linked by the kana information 13.

  [Step ST9] In the authentication server device 100, the ID information cooperation management unit 102 includes the corresponding ID information in the ID information storage unit 101 so as to include the cooperation information 12 including the pseudonym information 13 and the identification information 14 of the policy generation device. 10 is updated.

  In the policy generation device 200, when the kana information 13 is received by the communication unit 208, the ID information cooperation management unit 202 receives the cooperation information 22 including the kana information 23 identical to the kana information 13 and the identification information 24 of the authentication server device. The new ID information 20 in the ID information storage unit 201 is updated so as to include it. Thereby, the ID information 10 and 20 stored in the mutual devices 100 and 200 is associated.

  [Step ST10] In the policy generation device 200, the policy generation unit 205 generates access subject information 25 that includes the pseudonym information 23 in the linkage information 22 and the identification information 24 of the authentication server device, but does not include the selected identity information. The policy generation unit 205 generates an access control policy P based on the access subject information 25, the action information 26 and resource information 27 input in step ST5, and the policy generation device identification information 28.

  [Step ST11] In the policy generation device 200, the user interface unit 207 outputs the generated access control policy P.

  [Step ST12] As a result, the policy generation device 200 notifies the policy setter that the processing has been completed. Thereby, the policy generation operation is completed.

(Policy execution operation; FIGS. 11 and 12)
In the following description, it is assumed that the cooperation information stored in step ST9 is maintained and the policy evaluation operation is started by any means. For example, in the policy evaluation apparatus 300, when the user operates the user interface unit 308 so as to input an access request with policy evaluation, the operation in the next step ST21 is started.

  [Step ST21] In the policy evaluation apparatus 300, the policy acquisition unit 302 acquires the access control policy P. For example, the policy acquisition unit 302 acquires the access control policy P by downloading a document file accompanying the access control policy P from a document management server (not shown). That is, the access control policy P does not necessarily need to be transmitted directly from the policy generation device 200 to the policy evaluation device 300, but may be finally acquired by the policy evaluation device 300.

  The acquired access control policy is sent from the policy acquisition unit 302 to the policy analysis unit 303. The policy analysis unit 303 analyzes the access control policy P, and saves the pseudonym information 23 in the access control policy P, the identification information 24 of the authentication server device, the action information 26, the resource information 27, and the identification information 28 of the policy generation device. Write to part 301. The kana information 23, the identification information 24 of the authentication server device, the action information 26, and the resource information 27 in the policy storage unit 301 are sent from the policy analysis unit 303 to the policy evaluation unit 305. The policy analysis unit 303 sends the authentication server device identification information 24 and the policy generation device identification information 28 in the policy storage unit 301 from the policy analysis unit 303 to the user authentication client unit 304.

  [Step ST22] In the policy evaluation apparatus 300, the user authentication client unit 304 transmits a user authentication request including the identification information 28 of the policy generation apparatus to the authentication server apparatus 100 based on the identification information 24 of the authentication server apparatus. To do.

  [Steps ST23 to ST25] In the authentication server device 100, when the user authentication request is received by the communication unit 105, the user authentication unit 103 executes a predetermined user authentication method as shown in FIG. 11 (ST23- 1). For example, in the case of an authentication method using a general user identifier and password, the user authentication unit 103 requests the user of the policy evaluation apparatus 300 to present the user identifier and password via the communication unit 105, and presents it. The user identifier and password thus compared are compared with the user identifier 11a and password 11e in the ID information storage unit 101 to determine whether or not the authentication is successful (ST23-2). If the authentication fails, the user authentication unit 103 notifies the policy evaluation apparatus 300 that the authentication has failed, and retry the user authentication (ST23-3) or the overall operation. Exit.

  On the other hand, if the authentication is successful, the user authentication unit 103 confirms the linkage information 12 of the ID information (ST24-1). Specifically, the user authentication unit 103 cooperates by searching the user ID information 10 based on the presented user identifier 11a and the policy generation device identification information 28 in the user authentication request. It is determined whether the information 12 is maintained (ST24-2).

  As a result of the determination, if the cooperation of ID information is not maintained, the communication unit 105 notifies the policy evaluation apparatus 300 that the cooperation is not maintained (ST24-3), and the entire operation is terminated. As a case where the cooperation is not maintained, for example, the policy generation apparatus 200 or the authentication server apparatus 100 requests the other apparatus 100, 200 to delete the cooperation information in advance, and the cooperation information 12, 22 between the two is deleted. There are cases.

  On the other hand, as a result of the determination in step ST24-2, when the cooperation of the ID information is maintained, in the authentication server device 100, the user authentication unit 103 includes the authentication information including the pseudonym information 13 in the ID information storage unit 101. Is generated (ST25-1), and this authentication information is transmitted from the communication unit 105 to the policy evaluation apparatus 300 (ST25-2).

  [Step ST26] In the policy evaluation apparatus 300, when the communication unit 309 receives the authentication information, the policy evaluation unit 305 compares the kana information 13 in the authentication information with the kana information 23 received from the policy analysis unit 303. When the two match, the access control policy P is evaluated as valid.

  If the access control policy P is not valid, the policy evaluation unit 305 sends information indicating that the access control policy P is not valid to the user interface unit 308, and ends the process.

  On the other hand, when the access control policy P is valid, the policy evaluation unit 305 determines whether access is possible based on the access request for the control target and the action information 26 and resource information 27 received from the policy analysis unit 303. The determination result is sent to the policy execution unit 306.

  [Step ST27] The policy execution unit 306 controls the control target in accordance with the determination result of accessibility. For example, if the determination result indicates permission (PERMIT) for an access request to a specific resource, the access to the application that accesses the specific resource to be controlled is permitted. On the other hand, if the determination result indicates a denial (DENY) for an access request to a specific resource, the application that accesses the specific resource to be controlled is denied access. These control contents are determined depending on the description contents of the policy.

  As described above, according to this embodiment, since the access subject information 25 in the access control policy P does not include identity information, the access subject information in the access control policy is protected without encrypting the description of the access subject. it can.

  In addition, since the access subject information 25 in the access control policy P includes the pseudonym information 23, the risk of information leakage can be eliminated even when it is desired to control access in units of individual access subjects.

  Furthermore, since the ID information 20 managed by the policy generation device 200 does not include identity information, the policy creator does not need to manage information related to the access subject.

  Supplementally, in this embodiment, when it is necessary to perform access control in units of access entities, instead of describing identification information that can directly identify an access entity in an access control policy, a single access entity By using temporary identification information that cannot be specified, information on the access subject can be protected on the access control policy. As a result, the access control policy can be handled as public shared information, and compared with the case where the access control policy is hidden by encryption or the like, while eliminating security risks such as leakage of the encryption key, A wide range of application of access control policies can be expected.

  Moreover, although this embodiment demonstrated the case where ID information of the policy production | generation apparatus 200 and the authentication server apparatus 100 was cooperated, not only this but any apparatus 200,100 may delete cooperation information. If the request is made to another apparatus 100, 200, the cooperation information is deleted and the cooperation is released.

  As a result of this cancellation, step ST24-2 is NO in the authentication server device 100, so that the policy evaluation device 300 does not evaluate the access control policy P as valid. That is, it is possible to invalidate the access subject described in the access control policy from both the policy creator (policy generation apparatus user) and the user administrator (authentication server apparatus administrator).

  The method for canceling the cooperation is not limited to the method for requesting the deletion of the cooperation information. For example, the cooperation information expiration date is included in the cooperation information 12 and 22 in advance, and the authentication server apparatus 100 authenticates the cooperation information at the time of authentication. It is good also as a system which confirms that it has not passed.

  Note that the authentication server device 100 and the policy generation device 200 described in the present embodiment may be realized on the same device.

  In addition, the method described in the above embodiment is a program that can be executed by a computer, such as a magnetic disk (floppy (registered trademark) disk, hard disk, etc.), an optical disk (CD-ROM, DVD, etc.), a magneto-optical disk (MO). ), Stored in a storage medium such as a semiconductor memory, and distributed.

  In addition, as long as the storage medium can store a program and can be read by a computer, the storage format may be any form.

  In addition, an OS (operating system) running on a computer based on an instruction of a program installed in the computer from a storage medium, MW (middleware) such as database management software, network software, and the like realize the above-described embodiment. A part of each process may be executed.

  Furthermore, the storage medium in the present invention is not limited to a medium independent of a computer, but also includes a storage medium that downloads and stores or temporarily stores a program transmitted via a LAN, the Internet, or the like.

  Further, the number of storage media is not limited to one, and the case where the processing in the above embodiment is executed from a plurality of media is also included in the storage media in the present invention, and the media configuration may be any configuration.

  The computer according to the present invention executes each process in the above-described embodiment based on a program stored in a storage medium, and is a single device such as a personal computer or a system in which a plurality of devices are connected to a network. Any configuration may be used.

  In addition, the computer in the present invention is not limited to a personal computer, but includes an arithmetic processing device, a microcomputer, and the like included in an information processing device, and is a generic term for devices and devices that can realize the functions of the present invention by a program. .

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment as it is, and can be embodied by modifying the constituent elements without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. Moreover, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the embodiment. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, you may combine the component covering different embodiment suitably.

It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of the access control system which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of the authentication server apparatus in the embodiment. It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of the ID information storage part in the authentication server apparatus in the embodiment. It is a schematic diagram for demonstrating the ID information list in the embodiment. It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of the policy production | generation apparatus in the same embodiment. It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of the ID information storage part in the policy production | generation apparatus in the embodiment. It is a schematic diagram for demonstrating the policy information in the same embodiment. It is a schematic diagram which shows the example of a description of the subject element of policy information in the embodiment. It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of the policy evaluation apparatus in the embodiment. It is a sequence diagram for demonstrating the policy production | generation operation | movement in the embodiment. It is a sequence diagram for demonstrating the policy execution operation | movement in the embodiment. It is a flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement of the authentication server apparatus in the embodiment. It is a schematic diagram for demonstrating the conventional access control policy.

Explanation of symbols

  10, 20 ... ID information, 11a ... User identifier, 11b ... Full name, 11c ... Title information, 11d ... Authority information, 11e ... Password, 12, 22 ... Cooperation information, 13, 23, 23 '... Kana information, 14, 28 ... identification information of policy generation device, 21 ... user identifier ', 24, 24' ... identification information of authentication server device, P ... access control policy, 25 ... access subject information, 26 ... action information, 27 ... resource information, 100 ... Authentication server device, 101, 201 ... ID information storage unit, 102, 202 ... ID information cooperation management unit, 103 ... User authentication unit, 104 ... Identity information list providing unit, 105, 208, 309 ... Communication unit, 106, 209 , 310 ... control unit, 200 ... policy generation device, 203 ... identity information acquisition unit, 204 ... identity information list unit, 205 ... policy generation unit, 206 ... , 308, 308... User interface unit, 300, policy evaluation device, 301, policy storage unit, 302, policy acquisition unit, 303, policy analysis unit, 304, user authentication client unit, 305, policy evaluation unit, 306: Policy execution unit, 307: Control interface unit, Nw: Network.

Claims (6)

A policy generation device capable of communicating with an authentication server device managing identity information of an access subject, and for creating an access control policy including access subject information corresponding to any of the identity information,
Means for transmitting a list acquisition request of the identity information to the authentication server device;
Means for displaying a list of identification information received from the authentication server device;
Means for selecting any one of the listed pieces of identity information;
Means for calculating identification information not including the selected identity information;
Means for creating new ID information including the calculated identification information and not including the selected identity information, and writing the new ID information in a storage means;
Means for transmitting a cooperation request between the selected identity information and the new ID information to the authentication server device;
Means for receiving pseudonym information comprising random number information from the authentication server device in response to transmission of the cooperation request;
Means for updating new ID information in the storage means so as to include linkage information including the pseudonym information and identification information of the authentication server device;
Means for creating access subject information including pseudonym information in the linkage information and identification information of the authentication server device, and not including the selected identity information;
Means for generating an access control policy including the created access subject information;
A policy generating apparatus comprising: A policy evaluation device capable of communicating with an authentication server device that manages identity information and authentication factor information of an access subject, pseudonym information including random number information, and identification information of a policy generation device,
Generated in the policy generation device so as to include access entity information that does not include the identity information and the authentication factor information, and includes the pseudonym information and the identification information of the authentication server device, and the identification information of the policy generation device Means for obtaining an access control policy;
Of the acquired access control policy, means for writing the pseudonym information, the identification information of the authentication server apparatus, and the identification information of the policy generation apparatus to a storage means;
Means for transmitting an authentication request including identification information of the policy generation device in the storage means to the authentication server device;
Means for transmitting authentication factor information to the authentication server device upon receiving a presentation request from the authentication server device after transmitting the authentication request;
Means for receiving from the authentication server device pseudonym information corresponding to the authentication factor information and the identification information of the policy generation device after transmitting the authentication factor information;
Means for comparing the received kana information with the kana information in the storage means;
As a result of the comparison, when both match, a means for evaluating the acquired access control policy as valid;
A policy evaluation apparatus comprising: An authentication server device capable of communicating with a policy generation device and a policy evaluation device,
Storage means for storing ID information including the identity information and authentication factor information of the access subject;
Means for transmitting the identity information list acquisition request from the policy generation device, and transmitting the identity information in the storage means to the policy generation device;
Means for receiving, from the policy generation apparatus, a cooperation request between the identification information selected by the policy generation apparatus in the transmitted identification information and new ID information not including the identification information in the policy generation apparatus; ,
Means for generating kana information consisting of random number information in response to the cooperation request, and transmitting the kana information to the policy generation device;
Means for updating ID information in the storage means corresponding to the identification information of the cooperation request so as to include cooperation information including the pseudonym information and identification information of the policy generation device;
Generated in the policy generation device so as to include access entity information that does not include the identity information and the authentication factor information, and includes the pseudonym information and the identification information of the authentication server device, and the identification information of the policy generation device Means for receiving from the policy evaluation device an authentication request including identification information of the policy generation device in the access control policy when the policy evaluation device acquires the access control policy;
Means for transmitting an authentication factor information presentation request to the policy evaluation apparatus in response to the authentication request;
An authentication unit that compares the authentication factor information received from the authentication server device with the authentication factor information in the storage unit, and determines that the authentication process is successful when both match,
Means for searching the storage means based on authentication factor information that has determined that the authentication processing has succeeded, and identification information of a policy generation device in the authentication request;
As a result of the search, when there is corresponding ID information, means for transmitting the pseudonym information in the linkage information included in the ID information to the policy evaluation device;
An authentication server device comprising: A program of a policy generation device capable of communicating with an authentication server device that manages the identity information of an access subject, and for creating an access control policy including access subject information corresponding to any of the identity information,
The policy generator is
Means for transmitting a list acquisition request of the identity information to the authentication server device;
Means for displaying a list of identification information received from the authentication server device;
Means for selecting any one of the listed pieces of identity information;
Means for calculating identification information not including the selected identity information;
Means for creating new ID information including the calculated identification information and not including the selected identity information, and writing the new ID information in a storage means of the policy generation device;
Means for transmitting a request for cooperation between the selected identity information and the new ID information to the authentication server device;
Means for receiving pseudonym information comprising random number information from the authentication server device in response to transmission of the cooperation request;
Means for updating new ID information in the storage means so as to include linkage information including the pseudonym information and identification information of the authentication server device;
Means for creating access subject information including pseudonym information in the linkage information and identification information of the authentication server device and not including the selected identity information;
Means for generating an access control policy including the created access subject information;
Program to function as. A policy evaluation apparatus program capable of communicating with an authentication server apparatus that manages identification information of an access subject and authentication element information, pseudonym information including random number information, and identification information of a policy generation apparatus,
The policy evaluation device
Generated in the policy generation device so as to include access entity information that does not include the identity information and the authentication factor information, and includes the pseudonym information and the identification information of the authentication server device, and the identification information of the policy generation device Means for obtaining an access control policy;
Means for writing the pseudonym information, the identification information of the authentication server device, and the identification information of the policy generation device in the storage means of the policy evaluation device among the obtained access control policies;
Means for transmitting an authentication request including identification information of the policy generation device in the storage means to the authentication server device;
Means for transmitting authentication element information to the authentication server device upon receiving a presentation request from the authentication server device after transmitting the authentication request;
Means for receiving from the authentication server device pseudonym information corresponding to the authentication factor information and the identification information of the policy generation device after transmitting the authentication factor information;
Means for comparing the received kana information with the kana information in the storage means;
Means for evaluating the acquired access control policy as valid when both match as a result of the comparison;
Program to function as. An authentication server device program capable of communicating with a policy generation device and a policy evaluation device,
The authentication server device;
Means for writing ID information including the identity information of the access subject and authentication factor information in the storage means of the authentication server device;
Means for transmitting the identity information list acquisition request from the policy generation device, and transmitting the identity information in the storage means to the policy generation device;
Means for receiving, from the policy generation device, a cooperation request between the identity information selected by the policy generation device in the transmitted identity information and new ID information not including the identity information in the policy generation device;
Means for generating pseudonym information comprising random number information in response to the cooperation request, and transmitting the pseudonym information to the policy generation device;
Means for updating ID information in the storage means corresponding to the identity information of the cooperation request so as to include cooperation information including the pseudonym information and identification information of the policy generation device;
Generated in the policy generation device so as to include access entity information that does not include the identity information and the authentication factor information, and includes the pseudonym information and the identification information of the authentication server device, and the identification information of the policy generation device Means for receiving, from the policy evaluation apparatus, an authentication request including identification information of the policy generation apparatus in the access control policy when the policy evaluation apparatus acquires the access control policy;
Means for transmitting an authentication factor information presentation request to the policy evaluation apparatus in response to the authentication request;
An authentication unit that compares the authentication factor information received from the authentication server device with the authentication factor information in the storage unit, and determines that the authentication process is successful when the two match.
Means for searching the storage means based on authentication factor information determined to be successful in the authentication process and identification information of a policy generation device in the authentication request;
As a result of the search, when there is corresponding ID information, means for transmitting pseudonym information in the linkage information included in the ID information to the policy evaluation device;
Program to function as.

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