The Eighth IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop (CSFW '95) Building higher resolution synthetic clocks for signaling in covert timing channels Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland March 13-March 15 ISBN: 0-8186-7033-9
We report on our study of a timing channel countermeasure within the context of the National Computer Security Center's evaluation of the Boeing multilevel secure local area network (MLS LAN) secure network server (SNS). The countermeasure restricts the throughput of internal timing channels by explicitly limiting the time reference clock granularity that is made available to untrusted processes running on the SNS. We describe details of an internal covert timing channel implementation experiment, which was used to informally validate certain assumptions and results in the formal mathematical covert channel analysis. More specifically, we describe a method used for synthetically generating a fine-grained signaling clock to achieve timing channel throughput that approaches the capacity derived in Boeing's worst-case analysis of timing channel capacities.
Index Terms:
local area networks; security of data; higher resolution synthetic clocks; covert timing channels; timing channel countermeasure; Boeing multilevel secure local area network; secure network server; internal timing channels; time reference clock granularity; fine-grained signaling clock; timing channel throughput; worst-case analysis; timing channel capacities
Citation:
J.V.A. Janeri, D.B. Darby, D.D. Schnackenberg, "Building higher resolution synthetic clocks for signaling in covert timing channels," csfw, pp.85, The Eighth IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop (CSFW '95), 1995 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||