Reasoning about delegation and account access in retail payment systems

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Abstract

Delegation and trust are essential to the smooth operation of large, geographically distributed systems, such as the US electronic retail payment system. This system supports billions of electronic transactions-from routine banking and store purchases to electronic commerce on the Internet. Because such systems provide the electronic fabric of our networked information society, it is crucial to understand rigorously and precisely the basis for the delegation and trust relationships in them. In this paper, we use a modal logic for access control to analyze these relationships in the context of checks (and their electronic equivalents) as payment instruments. While not free from risk, the retail payment system effectively balances trust, delegation, and risk on billions of transactions. Our logic allows us to explore with rigor the details of trust, delegation, and risk in these transactions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationHCI International 2013 - Posters' Extended Abstracts - International Conference, HCI International 2013, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages99-114
Number of pages16
EditionPART II
ISBN (Print)3540739858, 9783540739852
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2013 - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: Jul 21 2013Jul 26 2013

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
NumberPART II
Volume374
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Other

Other15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period7/21/137/26/13

Keywords

  • Access control
  • Delegation
  • Modal logic
  • Retail payment systems
  • Trust

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • General Mathematics

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