System and method for providing manageability to security information for secured items

A computer readable medium including at least computer program code for accessing a secured item, said computer readable medium comprises:

• computer program code for obtaining the secured item to be accessed, the secured item having a header portion and a data portion;
• computer program code for retrieving a security information pointer from the header portion of the secured item;
• computer program code for obtaining security information for the secured item using the security information pointer;
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• computer program code for permitting access to the secured item to the extent permitted by the security information.

A system for accessing a secured item, the secured item having a header portion and an encrypted data portion, the header portion including a pointer and an encrypted key, said system comprising:

• a storage device, said storage device storing security information for a plurality of different secured items, the pointer serving to locate the security information associated with secured item;
• a first decryption module, said first decryption module receiving the encrypted key from the header portion of the secured item and decrypting the encrypted key to obtain a key;
• an access analyzer operatively connected to said storage device, said access rules analyzer determines whether the encrypted data portion is permitted to be accessed by a requestor based on the security information;
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• a second decryption module operatively connected to said access analyzer, said second decryption module decrypting the encrypted data portion using the key to produce an unencrypted data portion that the requestor is able to access, provided said access analyzer determines that the encrypted data portion is permitted to be accessed by the requestor.