Fault-tolerant Non-interference
Paper in proceeding, 2014

This paper is about ensuring security in unreliable systems. We study systems which are subject to transient faults – soft errors that cause stored values to be corrupted. The classic problem of fault tolerance is to modify a system so that it works despite a limited number of faults. We introduce a novel variant of this problem. Instead of demanding that the system works despite faults, we simply require that it remains secure: wrong answers may be given but secrets will not be revealed. We develop a software-based technique to achieve this fault tolerant non-interference property. The method is defined on a simple assembly language, and guarantees security for any assembly program provided as input. The security property is defined on top of a formal model that encompasses both the fault-prone machine and the faulty environment. A precise characterization of the class of programs for which the method guarantees transparency is provided.

Non-interference

transient faults

security

Author

Filippo Del Tedesco

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

Alejandro Russo

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

David Sands

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. 8364 LNCS 60-76
9783319048963 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Computer and Information Science

Computer Science

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-04897-0_5

ISBN

9783319048963

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