Model-checking Secure Information Flow for Multi-Threaded Programs

Marieke Huisman, Henri-Charles Blondeel

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    Abstract

    This paper shows how secure information flow properties of multi-threaded programs can be verified by model checking in a precise and efficient way, by using the idea of self-composition. It discusses two properties that aim to capture secure information flow for multi-threaded programs, and it shows how these properties can be char- acterised in modal μ-calculus. For this characterisation, a self-composed model of the program is constructed. More precisely, this is a model that contains two copies of the labelled transition system induced by the program, so that the program is executed in parallel with itself. The self- composed model allows to compare two program executions in a single temporal formula that characterises a secure information flow property. Both the formula and model are translated into the input language for the Concurrency Workbench model checker. We discuss this encoding, and use it for some practical experiments on several simple examples.
    Original languageUndefined
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the Joint Workshop on Theory of Security and Applications, TOSCA 2011
    EditorsS. Mödersheim, C. Palamadessi
    Place of PublicationBerlin
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages148-165
    Number of pages18
    ISBN (Print)978-3-642-27374-2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Mar 2011
    EventJoint Workshop on Theory of Security and Applications, TOSCA 2011 - Saarbruecken, Germany
    Duration: 31 Mar 20111 Apr 2011

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Volume6993
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743

    Workshop

    WorkshopJoint Workshop on Theory of Security and Applications, TOSCA 2011
    Period31/03/111/04/11
    Other31 March - 1 April 2011

    Keywords

    • METIS-277679
    • EWI-20260
    • IR-77615

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