Conditional information flow policies and unwinding relations

  • Authors:
  • Chenyi Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia

  • Venue:
  • TGC'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Trustworthy Global Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Noninterference provides a control over information flow in systems for ensuring confidentiality and integrity security properties. In general, user A is not allowed to interfere with user B if A's behaviour cannot cause any difference in B's observation. Unwinding relations are useful verification techniques for noninterference-based properties. This paper defines a framework for the notion of conditional noninterference, which allows to specify information flow policies based on the semantics of action channels. To verify the properties, we present unwinding relations that are both sound and complete for the new policies.