Privacy System Vocabulary This is a vocabulary in EPAL that will be used for modelling the interactions in a Privacy System. Penn Security Lab University of Pennsylvania seclab@seas.upenn.edu

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USA http://www.securitylab.cis.upenn.edu Subject Subscriber Holder Root category that includes all subcategories Root of all data types. Purpose1 Purpose2 Root purpose that includes all others Publish Subscribe event - T function Creation event - V relation Set Policy event - W relation Action event - U relation Container for information about the principal involved in the publishing event. This Container has information about the Sigmas that belong to each principal. dateTime values are included to allow for checking expiration of principal permissions Name of the principal that owns this permission Name of the subject of the permission Value of the permission indicator (Can be {dir, bottom} only) Date and time when the permission expires Container with the information needed to evaluate a transfer request. Value of the Sigma that the publisher has on the subject Value of the Sigma that the subscriber has on the subject Name of the publisher Name of the subscriber Name of the subject of the data Container with the information needed to evaluate a set policy request. Value of the Sigma that the setter has on the subject Value of the Sigma that the recipient has on the subject Name of the setter Name of the recipient Name of the subject of the data All the data necessary for the evaluation of a set policy event - p sets sigma on q for r at t Name of the principal that is doing the setting of the permissions Value of the permission that the setter is setting Name of the principal that is receiving the permission on the subject Name of the principal that the permission is being set about Time and date when the set policy event is taking place All the data necessary for the evaluation of a creation event - p creates x at t Name of the principal that is doing the object creation Object being created Name of the principal that the object created is about Time and date when the creation is taking place All the data necessary for the evaluation of a set publish/subscribe event - p gets x from q at t Name of the principal that is doing the publishing Object that is being published Name of the principal that is receiving the object Name of the principal that the object is about Time and date when the publishing/subscribing is taking place All the data necessary for the evaluation of an action event - p does a on q at t Name of the principal that is doing the action Action being done Name of the principal that is being acted on Time and date when the action is taking place Data must be reduced in accuracy before the action of this rule can be executed.