Instance-based Security with the Security Annotation Framework (SAF)
- 1. ICW Developer Conference - May 2008 Instance-based Security with the Security Annotation Framework (SAF) ICW Developer Conference Martin Krasser / 07.05.2008 Martin Krasser • Software Architect @ Professional Gate • Focus - Application Security - Application Integration Platforms - Application Integration Solutions - Research & Development 07.05.2008 ICW Developer Conference Security - Instance-based Security with SAF 13 - 1
- 2. ICW Developer Conference - May 2008 Agenda • Introduction • Architecture • Code Examples • Outlook • Live Demo 07.05.2008 ICW Developer Conference Overview • Open Source Security Project @ sourceforge.net - Instance-level access control - Attribute-level encryption • Driven by Java 5 Annotations - @Secure and @Filter annotations to enforce access decisions - @Encrypt annotation to trigger encryption/decryption operations • Framework with provider interfaces (SPI) for - Authorization Providers - Encryption Providers - Reference implementations available 07.05.2008 ICW Developer Conference Security - Instance-based Security with SAF 13 - 2
- 3. ICW Developer Conference - May 2008 Motivations • Java EE doesn‘t provide instance-level access control mechanisms - Access decisions and policy definitions in Java EE only based on static application properties (methods, ...) - Instance-level access control is additionally based on runtime application properties (domain object state, ...) • Encryption mechanisms decoupled from data storage/binding mechanisms - No Hibernate-specific encryption interceptors ... - No JAXB-specific marshal/unmarshal listeners ... • Avoid complex configurations - No need to deal with Spring/AspectJ AOP details - Place security interceptors using annotations • Support for pluggable authorization and crypto providers - Access control and encryption logic provided by plugins/providers - Different applications have significantly different access control and encryption requirements 07.05.2008 ICW Developer Conference History • SAF initially developed as part of the eHF - Refactoring of complex Spring/AspectJ AOP configurations • Open source since March 2007 - Apache 2.0 License • Three releases so far - Latest release is 0.8.2 (production-stable) - Current development on 0.9-SNAPSHOT 07.05.2008 ICW Developer Conference Security - Instance-based Security with SAF 13 - 3
- 4. ICW Developer Conference - May 2008 SAF Access Control Architecture Security Domain SAF Core Requestor Interceptor Object AccessManager SAF JAAS Authorization Spring Security Provider ... • Security Interceptor (Policy Enforcement Point) - Implemented by annotating domain objects, methods and method parameters • Authorization Providers (Policy Decision Point) - Makes access decisions based on class instances - Reference implementation based on JAAS extensions 07.05.2008 ICW Developer Conference SAF Crypto Architecture Crypto Instance SAF Core Requestor Interceptor Attribute CryptoProvider SAF Crypto Crypto ... Provider • Crypto Interceptor - Implemented by annotating instance attributes • Crypto Service Provider - Runs encrypt/decrypt operations - Reference implementation coming soon 07.05.2008 ICW Developer Conference Security - Instance-based Security with SAF 13 - 4
- 5. ICW Developer Conference - May 2008 Code Example – Access Control 07.05.2008 ICW Developer Conference Code Example – Attribute Encryption • BUT: No crypto operations for access via reflection • Hibernate can be configured for reflective access (field access) - Encrypted storage of attribute values in databases • JAXB2 can be configured for reflective access (field access) - XML binding of encrypted attribute values 07.05.2008 ICW Developer Conference Security - Instance-based Security with SAF 13 - 5
- 6. ICW Developer Conference - May 2008 Configuration Spring 2.5 Application Context Provider Implementations loads 07.05.2008 ICW Developer Conference Behind the Scenes Client Spring AOP AspectJ Spring Method Enhanced AspectJ RT CT Bytecode AOP Proxy Interceptor Advice Domain Object Application Service SAF Spring Bean Infrastructure RT Created at runtime Access Created at compile time Manager CT 07.05.2008 ICW Developer Conference Security - Instance-based Security with SAF 13 - 6
- 7. ICW Developer Conference - May 2008 Outlook – 1.0 Release • Crypto provider reference implementation • AspectJ load-time weaving • AspectJ 1.6 upgrade - Support for parameter-level annotations • OSGi support - Make SAF components OSGi compliant bundles - OSGi sample application using SAF components • Security annotations on - Static domain object methods - Constructors • Documentation extensions - Document new features, more examples - Translate Java Magazin article to English • Acegi authorization provider integration (optional) 07.05.2008 ICW Developer Conference Resources • Project Site - http://sourceforge.net/projects/safr • Web Site - http://safr.sourceforge.net/ • Article - Instanz-basierte Zugriffskontrolle, Java Magazin 7.2007 07.05.2008 ICW Developer Conference Security - Instance-based Security with SAF 13 - 7
- 8. ICW Developer Conference - May 2008 Live Demo • Notebook web application 07.05.2008 ICW Developer Conference Thank you for your attention! martin.krasser@icw.de Security - Instance-based Security with SAF 13 - 8