Re: [xacml-dev] XACML Attribute values locaters

[Security Developer <security.developer22@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the nice explanation. I have one more question please

What are the major attribute repositories supported by most XACML vendors apart from LDAP and Databases?

Thanks.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:33 PM, David Brossard <david.brossard@axiomatics.com> wrote:

Hi,

In addition to Ludwig's comments, it might be the case that the PEP doesn't have access to all the sources of attributes or is not authorized to access the needed sources of attributes.

Cheers,
David.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Ludwig Seitz <ludwig@sics.se> wrote:

On ons, 2011-04-27 at 13:57 +0500, Security Developer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the real time use case when XACML PDP has to find the
> attribute values from external sources i.e. LDAP, Database etc.
>
> Why not authentication system return all the attributes of a subject
> so the XACML PDP do not have to locate the attribute values?
>
> More explanation about the related topic would be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks and Best Regards.

The PEP might not know which attributes are required by the policies
when submitting the request to the PDP, or it might be bad for
performance to retrieve all attributes for each request (since many of
them might not be needed for a specific request).

Regards,

Ludwig



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