Flow locks: Towards a core calculus for dynamic flow policies
Paper i proceeding, 2006

Security is rarely a static notion. What is considered to be confidential or untrusted data varies over time according to changing events and states. The static verification of secure information flow has been a popular theme in recent programming language research, but information flow policies considered are based on multilevel security which presents a static view of security levels. In this paper we introduce a very simple mechanism for specifying dynamic information flow policies, flow locks, which specify conditions under which data may be read by a certain actor. The interface between the policy and the code is via instructions which open and close flow locks. We present a type and effect system for an ML-like language with references which permits the completely static verification of flow lock policies, and prove that the system satisfies a semantic security property generalising noninterference. We show that this simple mechanism can represent a number of recently proposed information flow paradigms for declassification.

Författare

N. Broberg

David Sands

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Datavetenskap

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Vol. 3924 180-196
0302-97433-540-33095-X (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier

Data- och informationsvetenskap

DOI

10.1007/11693024_13

ISBN

0302-97433-540-33095-X

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