ABAC

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

• libabac, a linkable C/C++ library
• Perl and Python bindings to libabac
• an XML-RPC pre-prover
• creddy, an X.509 identity and attribute certificate management tool

News

• 2010-09-17 2010-09-20: ABAC 0.1.1 released, see ChangeLog for details
  • Update: We fixed a one-line bug in creddy. If you downloaded this over the weekend, please fetch it again.

Who

• Mike Ryan mikeryan@…
• Ted Faber faber@…
• John Wroclawski jtw@…

In conjunction with:

• Jay Jacobs Jay.Jacobs@…
• Alefiya Hussain Alefiya.Hussain@…
• Steve Schwab Stephen.Schwab@…

Source

Grab the latest tarball from http://abac.deterlab.net/src/abac-0.1.1.tgz (released 2010-09-17)

Browse the source using Trac's internal browser.

Available via anonymous git:

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

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

Installation

• Installation instructions​
• Software dependencies​

Documentation

• System design​
• libabac API​
• libcreddy API
• Creddy
• Usage scenario​
• Keystore format​
• ChangeLog

Example keystores (in source tree):

• Simple Acme example
• More complex experiment creation
• Acme rockets with intersection node

Example code

• ABAC prover
  • C​
  • C++​
  • Perl​
  • Python​
• XML-RPC pre-prover (Perl)
• libcreddy
  • Get keyid from a cert
    • Perl​
    • Python
  • libcreddy and libabac integration (Python)