Bisimulation and Unwinding for Verifying Possibilistic Security Properties

  • Authors:
  • Annalisa Bossi;Riccardo Focardi;Carla Piazza;Sabina Rossi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VMCAI 2003 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We study bisimulation-based information flow security properties which are persistent, in the sense that if a system is secure, then all states reachable from it are secure too. We show that such properties can be characterized in terms of bisimulation-like equivalence relations between the system and the system itself prevented from performing confidential actions. Moreover, we provide a characterization of such properties in terms of unwinding conditions which demand properties of individual actions. These two different characterizations naturally lead to efficient methods for the verification and construction of secure systems. We also prove several compositionality results and discuss a sufficient condition to define refinement operators preserving security.