Language-based security on Android

  • Authors:
  • Avik Chaudhuri

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Maryland at College Park

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Fourth Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we initiate a formal study of security on Android: Google's new open-source platform for mobile devices. Specifically, we present a core typed language to describe Android applications, and to reason about their data-flow security properties. Our operational semantics and type system provide some necessary foundations to help both users and developers of Android applications deal with their security concerns.