DNAOS Quick Glossary

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ENCRYPTION
a security process where information is encrypted and can only be accessed by owners of the corresponding decrypting key. All communication and long term persistence of private contents, profiles, and resources should be encrypted, and keys managed the accordingly. See also Authorization Authentication Entitlement.

ENTITLEMENT
a resourcerelation type that defines access rights, policies, and tracking between the associated Resources. The process of securing resources by constraining access of subject resources over object resources, in real-time, on every access, with unlimited granularity, to ensure that: users are given access only to all resources that they are entitled to, for any given context. Entitlement is also expressed, modeled, and managed as a Resource relation type, that defines access rights and policies between Resources. Entitlement is at the root of distributed virtual profile applications, because of the important associated security considerations. See also Entitlement is a fundamental information sharing enabler, combining Encryption Authorization Authentication with resource management to offer secure information sharing and access.

ENTITY
All DNAOS resources operate with similar patterns but some of them can be characterized by the fact that they also define a specific relationship between two other resources. Correspondingly to this natural pattern, some resources also have 'from' and 'to' references to the other two resources, used to relate them. Often these resources are called 'relations' while the others are commonly referred to as 'entities'.