ABAC

The ABAC project has designed and implemented tools for using Attribute-Based Access Control. If you are new to ABAC, you may find the ​introductory material from our ​TIED project helpful. That material summarizes the power and semantics of ABAC and links to ​examples of ABAC policy illustrated using an early example of the Crudge ABAC policy browser.

• 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
• a native Java reimplementation of libabac
• an XML-RPC pre-prover
• creddy, a command line interface to libcreddy
• crudge a visual editor for ABAC policies and proofs
  • webstart link
• credential printer an XMLRPC service to convert credentials to a text representation

News

See the ChangeLog for details about each release

• 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-0.1.3.tgz (released 2011-03-30)

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

Browse the source using Trac's internal browser.

Installation and Documentation

• Installation instructions​
• Software dependencies​
• Documentation

git / mailing list

Available via anonymous git:

git clone git://abac.deterlab.net/abac.git

​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@…
• Ted Faber faber@…
• Mei-Hui Su mei@…
• John Wroclawski jtw@…
• Steve Schwab schwab@…