Dimensions and Principles of Declassification

  • Authors:
  • Andrei Sabelfeld;David Sands

  • Affiliations:
  • Chalmers;Chalmers

  • Venue:
  • CSFW '05 Proceedings of the 18th IEEE workshop on Computer Security Foundations
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Computing systems often deliberately release (or declassify) sensitive information. A principal security concern for systems permitting information release is whether this release is safe: is it possible that the attacker compromises the information release mechanism and extracts more secret information than intended? While the security community has recognised the importance of the problem, the state-of-theart in information release is, unfortunately, a number of approaches with somewhat unconnected semantic goals. We provide a road map of the main directions of current research, by classifying the basic goals according to what information is released, who releases information, where in the system information is released, and when information can be released. With a general declassification framework as a long-term goal, we identify some prudent principles of declassification. These principles shed light on existingdefinitions and may also serve as useful "sanity checks" for emerging models.