@TechReport{Dartmouth:TR2003-453,
  author = {Sidharth P. Nazareth},
  title = {{SPADE: SPKI/SDSI for Attribute Release Policies in a Distributed Environment }},
  institution = {Dartmouth College, Computer Science},
  address = {Hanover, NH},
  number = {TR2003-453},
  year = {2003},
  month = {May},
  URL = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2003-453.ps.Z},
  comment = {
     M.S Thesis.
     Advisor: Sean Smith
  },
  abstract = {
     Shibboleth is a federated administrated system that supports
    inter-institutional authentication and authorization for sharing of
    resources. SPKI/SDSI is a public key infrastructure whose creation
    was motivated by the perception that X.509 is too complex and
    flawed. This thesis addresses the problem of how users that are part
    of a Public Key Infrastructure in a distributed computing system can
    effectively specify, create, and disseminate their Attribute Release
    Policies for Shibboleth using SPKI/SDSI. This thesis explores
    existing privacy mechanims, as well as distributed trust management
    and policy based systems. My work describes the prototype for a Trust
    Management Framework called SPADE (SPKI/SDSI for Attribute Release
    Policies in a Distributed Environment) that I have designed,
    developed and implemented. The principal result of this research has
    been the demonstration that SPKI/SDSI is a viable approach for trust
    management and privacy policy specification, especially for
    minimalistic policies in a distributed environment.
  }
}