VERONICA: Expressive and Precise Concurrent Information Flow Security
Paper i proceeding, 2020

Methods for proving that concurrent software does not leak its secrets has remained an active topic of research for at least the past four decades. Despite an impressive array of work, the present situation remains highly unsatisfactory. With contemporary compositional proof methods one is forced to choose between expressiveness (the ability to reason about a wide variety of security policies), on the one hand, and precision (the ability to reason about complex thread interactions and program behaviours), on the other. Achieving both is essential and, we argue, requires a new style of compositional reasoning.We present VERONICA, the first program logic for proving concurrent programs information flow secure that supports compositional, high-precision reasoning about a wide range of security policies and program behaviours (e.g. expressive declassification, value-dependent classification, secret-dependent branching). Just as importantly, VERONICA embodies a new approach for engineering such logics that can be re-used elsewhere, called decoupled functional correctness (DFC). DFC leads to a simple and clean logic, even while achieving this unprecedented combination of features. We demonstrate the virtues and versatility of VERONICA by verifying a range of example programs, beyond the reach of prior methods.

Författare

Daniel Schoepe

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Informationssäkerhet

Toby Murray

University of Melbourne

Andrei Sabelfeld

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Informationssäkerhet

Proceedings - IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium

19401434 (ISSN)

Vol. 2020-June 79-94 9155190
9781728165721 (ISBN)

33rd IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, CSF 2020
Virtual, Online, USA,

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Filosofi

Datavetenskap (datalogi)

Datorsystem

DOI

10.1109/CSF49147.2020.00014

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2020-09-24