Decentralized Delimited Release
Paper in proceeding, 2011

Decentralization is a major challenge for secure computing. In a decentralized setting, principals are free to distrust each other. The key challenge is to provide support for expressing and enforcing expressive decentralized policies. This paper focuses on declassification policies, i.e., policies for intended information release.We propose a decentralized language-independent framework for expressing what information can be released. The framework enables combination of data owned by different principals without compromising their respective security policies. A key feature is that information release is permitted only when the owners of the data agree on releasing it. We instantiate the framework for a simple imperative language to show how the decentralized declassification policies can be enforced by a runtime monitor and discuss a prototype that secures programs by inlining the monitor in the code.

Author

Jonas Magazinius

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Technology (Chalmers)

Aslan Askarov

Cornell University

Andrei Sabelfeld

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Technology (Chalmers)

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 7078 220-237
978-364225317-1 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Roots

Basic sciences

Subject Categories

Computer Science

DOI

10.1007/978-3-642-25318-8_18

ISBN

978-364225317-1

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