= ABAC =

The ABAC project collects several useful pieces of software implementing Attribute-Based Access Control.

 * libabac, a linkable C/C++ library
 * libcreddy, a linkable C/C++ library for X.509 identity and attribute certificate management
 * Perl and Python bindings to libabac and libcreddy
 * an XML-RPC pre-prover
 * creddy, a command line interface to libcreddy

== News ==
See the ChangeLog for details about each release
 * 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.

= Who =

 * Mike Ryan mikeryan@ISI.EDU
 * Ted Faber faber@ISI.EDU
 * John Wroclawski jtw@ISI.EDU
 * Steve Schwab schwab@ISI.EDU

= Source =

Grab the latest tarball from http://abac.deterlab.net/src/abac-0.1.2.tgz (released 2010-10-01)

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

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

=== Bleeding Edge (Mailing list!) ===

Available via anonymous git:
{{{
git clone 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!

= Installation =

 * [source:/doc/INSTALL Installation instructions]
 * [source:/doc/dependencies Software dependencies]

= Documentation =

 * [source:/doc/design System design]
 * [source:/doc/API libabac API]
 * [source:/doc/creddy_API libcreddy API]
 * [wiki:Creddy]
 * [source:/doc/usage_scenario Usage scenario]
 * [source:/doc/keystore Keystore format]
 * ChangeLog

Example keystores (in source tree):

 * [source:/examples/acme_rockets/README Simple Acme example]
 * [source:/examples/experiment_create/README More complex experiment creation]
 * [source:/examples/acme_rockets_intersection/README Acme rockets with intersection node]

Example code
 * ABAC prover
  * [source:/libabac/prover.c C]
  * [source:/libabac/prover_plus.cc C++]
  * [source:/swig/perl/abac_prover.pl Perl]
  * [source:/swig/python/abac_prover.py Python]
 * [source:/preprover/ XML-RPC pre-prover (Perl)]
 * libcreddy
  * Get keyid from a cert
    * [source:/swig/perl/creddy_keyid.pl Perl]
    * [source:/swig/python/creddy_keyid.py Python]
  * [source:/swig/python/creddy_abac.py libcreddy and libabac integration (Python)]