Zanzibar

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Created

2021 Oct 4 3:25

Editor

Editor

Seonglae Cho

Creator

Creator

Seonglae Cho

Edited

Edited

2025 Oct 16 10:12

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graph-based
Access Control Lists

External Consistency

Based on

GCP Spanner, External Consistency uses a timestamp token called Zookie to always guarantee the order of "ACL change → content change" to prevent new enemy problem

Paper

storage.googleapis.com

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-research2023-media/pubtools/5068.pdf

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc19-pang.pdf

What is Zanzibar?

Update Jul 29, 2021: I gave a talk on Zanizbar for Papers We Love and the video is now available: Lately there has been a lot of talk about Zanzibar that gets sent my way. I guess this is to be expected when you found a company based on the Zanzibar paper.

What is Zanzibar?

https://authzed.com/blog/what-is-zanzibar/

What is Zanzibar?

Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System | USENIX

Ruoming Pang, Ramon Caceres, Mike Burrows, Zhifeng Chen, Pratik Dave, Nathan Germer, Alexander Golynski, Kevin Graney, and Nina Kang, Google; Lea Kissner, Humu, Inc.; Jeffrey L. Korn, Google; Abhishek Parmar, Carbon, Inc.; Christina D. Richards and Mengzhi Wang, Google

https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/pang

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