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We propose a novel approach for granting to remote clients partial access on arbitrary objects at the granularity of methods. The applications that we target use Remote Method Invocation (RMI). We automatically build proxy objects, and give them to untrusted clients instead of the originals. Proxy objects expose a subset of methods to prevent potentially dangerous calls from clients. We present the system’s semantics, implementation, and its evaluation. Creating a proxy takes an order of magnitude less time than the corresponding RMI lookup.
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Zarnett, J., Lam, P., Tripunitara, M. (2009). Method-Specific Java Access Control via RMI Proxy Objects Using Annotations. In: Prakash, A., Sen Gupta, I. (eds) Information Systems Security. ICISS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5905. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10772-6_23
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