An Authorization Mechanism for a Relational Data Base System

Summary: Dynamic authorization for System R enables table-creator privileges to be chained via a directed graph, enabling selective sharing. Provides an exact revocation algorithm for complex grant graphs and a dynamic revalidation scheme to minimize runtime checks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2095
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1976
Pagerank: 0.000159408
Overall Rank: 595 | 95.92%
DOI: 10.1145/509383.509393

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Authors

1. P. P. Griffiths (IBM)
2. B. W. Wade (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{griffiths_sigmod76,
        title = {{An Authorization Mechanism for a Relational Data Base System}},
        author = {Griffiths, P. P. and Wade, B. W.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '76},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/509383.509393},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509383.509393},
        year = {1976}
}

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268	Extensible Query Processing in Starburst	1989	SIGMOD	0.00022788687
1,081	A study on the protection of statistical data bases	1977	SIGMOD	0.00012257715
1,659	Toward a Multilevel Secure Relational Data Model	1991	SIGMOD	0.00010079787
1,896	Limiting Disclosure in Hippocratic Databases	2004	VLDB	9.5249347e-05
4,159	On the Efficiency of Checking Perfect Privacy	2006	PODS	6.8626218e-05
4,195	A Unified Framework for Enforcing Multiple Access Control Policies	1997	SIGMOD	6.8425335e-05
4,663	The Cedar DBMS: A Preliminary Report	1981	SIGMOD	6.57876e-05
6,564	bdbms – A Database Management System for Biological Data	2007	CIDR	5.8383221e-05
6,773	An Approach For Building Secure Database Federations	1994	VLDB	5.7778893e-05
7,080	Derived Data Update in Semantic Databases	1989	VLDB	5.709055e-05
7,258	Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing	2021	SIGMOD	5.6614636e-05
13,164	Administration and Autonomy In A Replication-Transparent Distributed DBMS	1988	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,176	Chickens and Eggs: The Interrelationship of Systems and Theory (Extended Abstract)	1987	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,205	Framework for the Security Component of an Ada DBMS (Extended Abstract)	1986	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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