ABAC

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

The latest version is ABAC 0.2.3. Jump down to Source to download it.

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.

What's Included

• libabac, a linkable C/C++ library
• Perl, Python and Java bindings to libabac
• creddy, a command line credential management tool

• legacy to RT0:
  • 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

• 2013-01-15: ABAC 0.2.3 released
• 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-0.2.3.tgz (sig/key)

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

Browse the source using Trac's internal browser.

Installation and Documentation

• Software dependencies​
• Installation instructions​
• Documentation
• Performance data

• 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

​dev mailing list: If you're using anything out of git, you should be on it. It's low-volume, I promise!

Who

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