= ABAC =

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The ABAC project has designed and implemented tools for using Attribute-Based Access Control.

The latest version is '''ABAC 0.2.2'''. Jump down to [#Source Source] to download it.

If you are new to ABAC, you may find the [http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/TIEDABACModel introductory material] from our [http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/TIED TIED project] helpful.  That material summarizes the power and semantics of ABAC and links to [http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/TIEDABACDemo examples of ABAC policy] illustrated using an early example of [CrudgeDocs the Crudge ABAC policy browser].

== What's Included ==

 * libabac, a linkable C/C++ library 
 * Perl and Python bindings to libabac
 * creddy, a command line credential management tool
 * [CrudgeDocs crudge] a visual editor for ABAC policies and proofs
   * [http://abac.deterlab.net/java/crudge.jnlp webstart link]
 * [CredPrinterDocs credential printer] an XMLRPC service to convert credentials to a text representation


== News ==
See the [source:/doc/ChangeLog@mei_rt2 ChangeLog] for details about each release
 * 2012-09-26: ABAC 0.2.2 released
 * 2012-07-06: ABAC 0.2.1 released
 * 2012-02-27: ABAC 0.2.0 released
 * 2011-04-11: Crudge 1.0 released
 * 2011-03-30: ABAC 0.1.3 released
 * 2010-10-01: ABAC 0.1.2 released
 * ~~2010-09-17~~ 2010-09-20: ABAC 0.1.1 released
  * '''Update:''' We fixed a one-line bug in creddy. If you downloaded this over the weekend, please fetch it again.

== Source ==

Grab the latest tarball from http://abac.deterlab.net/src/abac-0.2.2.tgz ([http://abac.deterlab.net/src/abac-0.2.2.tgz.asc sig]/[GpgKey key]) (released 2012-0817)

Older versions available from http://abac.deterlab.net/src/

Browse the source using Trac's [/browser internal browser].

== Installation and Documentation ==

 * [source:/doc/dependencies@mei_rt2 Software dependencies]
 * [source:/doc/INSTALL@mei_rt2 Installation instructions] 
 * [wiki:DocumentationRT2 Documentation]
 * [wiki:PerformanceData Performance data]

 
 * [wiki:DocumentationOld Old Documentation]

== git / mailing list ==

Available via anonymous git: (RT0 with Java binding)
{{{
git clone git://abac.deterlab.net/abac.git
}}}

Latest available via anonymous git: (RT2)
{{{
git clone -b mei_rt2 git://abac.deterlab.net/abac.git
}}}

[http://lists.deterlab.net/listinfo/abac-dev dev mailing list]: If you're using anything out of git, you should be on it. It's low-volume, I promise!

== Who ==

 * Mike Ryan mikeryan@ISI.EDU
 * Ted Faber faber@ISI.EDU
 * Mei-Hui Su mei@ISI.EDU
 * John Wroclawski jtw@ISI.EDU
 * Steve Schwab schwab@ISI.EDU