Schematized access control in a content centric network

A computer system for facilitating schematized access control, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a storage device storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
• receiving, by a client computing device, a secret key for a user based on a schema, wherein the schema is a regular expression which corresponds to one or more names and allows a user to access content associated with the names, wherein a name is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier that includes contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level;
• in response to an interest with a name, receiving from a content producing device a responsive content object with an encrypted payload;
• in response to determining that the interest name corresponds to the schema, decrypting the payload based on the secret key, thereby facilitating schematized access control in a content centric network.

A computer-implemented method for facilitating schematized access control, the method comprising:

• generating, by a content producing device, a secret key for a user based on a schema, wherein the schema is a regular expression which corresponds to one or more names and allows a user access to content associated with the names, wherein a name is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier that includes contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level;
• receiving an interest with a name that corresponds to the schema;
• encrypting a payload of a responsive content object based on the interest name;
• and
• transmitting the responsive content object with the encrypted payload to the user, which allows the user to decrypt the encrypted payload with the secret key, thereby facilitating schematized access control in a content centric network.