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Type systems for information flow control: the question of granularity

Rajani, Vineet, Bastys, Iulia, Rafnsson, Willard, Garg, Deepak (2017) Type systems for information flow control: the question of granularity. ACM SIGLOG News, 4 (1). pp. 6-21. ISSN 2372-3491. E-ISSN 2372-3491. (doi:10.1145/3051528.3051531) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:90638)

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Abstract

Information flow control is central to computer security. The objective of information flow control is to prevent unauthorized flows of secret information to the public outputs of a computation. This task is often accomplished using type systems that rely on modal operators to label and track information and, hence, this style of enforcing information flow control is deeply ingrained in logic. One key choice in designing a type system for information flow control, or dependence analysis in general, is the granularity at which dependencies are tracked. This article considers two extreme design points in this vast design space and examines their relative expressiveness.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1145/3051528.3051531
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Amy Boaler
Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2021 08:09 UTC
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 19:54 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/90638 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Rajani, Vineet.

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