Hiding information in multi level security systems

  • Authors:
  • Danièle Beauquier;Ruggero Lanotte

  • Affiliations:
  • LACL, CNRS, FRE, Université Paris;Dipartimento di Scienze della Cultura, Politiche e dell'Informazione, Università dell'Insubria

  • Venue:
  • FAST'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Formal aspects in security and trust
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we analyze the possibility for malicious agents to transmit an information possibly hidden in a Multi Level Security System via a covert channel. We give a framework for which we get two decidability results. Firstly, given a code and a system one can decide whether the system allows a covert channel for this code. Secondly, one can decide whether there exists a code to transmit one bit of information, the code is computable as well as the strategies of the two partners.