A Proof-Carrying File System

  • Authors:
  • Deepak Garg;Frank Pfenning

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present the design and implementation of PCFS, a file system that adapts proof-carrying authorization to provide direct, rigorous, and efficient enforcement of dynamic access policies. The keystones of PCFS are a new authorization logic BL that supports policies whose consequences may change with both time and system state, and a rigorous enforcement mechanism that combines proof verification with conditional capabilities. We prove that our enforcement using capabilities is correct, and evaluate our design through performance measurements and a case study.