Information Flow Security in Dynamic Contexts

  • Authors:
  • Riccardo Focardi;Sabina Rossi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CSFW '02 Proceedings of the 15th IEEE workshop on Computer Security Foundations
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We study a security property for processes in dynamic contexts, i.e., contexts that can be reconfigured at run-time. The security property that we propose in this paper, named Persistent BNDC, is such that a process is "secure" when every state reachable from it satisfies a basicNon-Interference property. We define a suitable bisimulation based equivalence relation among processes, that allows us to express the new property as a single equivalence check, thus avoiding the universal quantifications over all the reachable states (required by Persistent BNDC) and over all the possible hostile environments (implicit in the basic Non-Interference property we adopt). We show that the novel security property is compositional and we discusshow it can be efficiently checked.