Providing Dynamic Security Control in a Federated Database

Summary: Addresses overclassification in federated databases, where integration fixes security at the least upper bound. Adapts Shamir secret sharing to enable time-bounded, dynamically authorized access when a quorum of current database administrators approves. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8368
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,317 | 1.78%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Norbik B. Idris (University of Wales College of Cardiff)
2. W. Alex Gray (University of Wales College of Cardiff)
3. Robert F. Churchhouse (University of Wales College of Cardiff)

BibTeX Citation

@article{idris_vldb94,
        title = {{Providing Dynamic Security Control in a Federated Database}},
        author = {Idris, Norbik B. and Gray, W. Alex and Churchhouse, Robert F.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        year = {1994}
}

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14,446	A Source-to-Source Meta-Translation System for Relational Query Languages	1987	VLDB	-

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