Information Flow vs. Resource Access in the Asynchronous Pi-Calculus

  • Authors:
  • Matthew Hennessy;James Riely

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICALP '00 Proceedings of the 27th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We propose an extension of the asychronous π-calculus in which a variety of security properties may be captured using types. These are an extension of the Input/Output types for the π-calculus in which I/O capabilities are assigned specific security levels. We define a typing system which ensures that processes running at security level σ cannot access resources with a security level higher than σ. The notion of access control guaranteed by this system is formalized in terms of a Type Safety theorem. We then show that, for a certain class of processes, our system prohibits implicit information flow from high-level to low-level processes. We prove that low-level behaviour can not be influenced by changes to high-level behaviour. This is formalized as a Non-Interference Theorem with respect to may testing.