Securing XML-Based Multimedia Content [chapter]

Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina Capitani di Vimercati
2003 Security and Privacy in the Age of Uncertainty  
Multimedia content delivery applications are becoming widespread thanks to increasingly cheaper access to high bandwidth networks. Also, the pervasiveness of XML as a data interchange format. has given rise to a number of standard formats for lIlultimedia, such as Sl\HL for multimedia presentations, SVG for vector graphics, VoiceXML for dialog, and MPEG-21 for video. Innovative programming paradigms (such as the one of Web services) rely on the availability of XML-based markup and metadata in
more » ... e multimedia flow in order to customize and add value to multimedia content distributed via the Net. In this paper, we present. a general access control model for multimedia information that allows for expressing complex filtering conditions on a wide range of properties of multimedia data. Access control policies' syntax and enforcement is illustrated by applying the model to some of XML-based multimedia data formats for multimedia.
doi:10.1007/978-0-387-35691-4_6 fatcat:i45jlo5as5cktcbnyermqnv4q4