Specification and Checking of Software Contracts for Conditional Information Flow

  • Authors:
  • Torben Amtoft;John Hatcliff;Edwin Rodríguez; Robby;Jonathan Hoag;David Greve

  • Affiliations:
  • Kansas State University Manhattan, USA KS 66506;Kansas State University Manhattan, USA KS 66506;Kansas State University Manhattan, USA KS 66506;Kansas State University Manhattan, USA KS 66506;Kansas State University Manhattan, USA KS 66506;Rockwell Collins Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

  • Venue:
  • FM '08 Proceedings of the 15th international symposium on Formal Methods
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Information assurance applications providing Multi-Level Secure(MLS) solutions must often implement information flow policies that are conditionalin the sense that data is allowed to flow between system components only when the system satisfies certain state predicates. However, existing specification and verification environments, such as SPARK, used to develop such applications, are capable of capturing only unconditional information flows. Motivated by the need to better formally specify and certify MLS applications in industrial contexts, we present an enhancement of the SPARK system that enables specification, inference, and compositional checking of conditional information flow contracts. We report on the use of this framework for a collection of SPARK examples.