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19th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop (CSFW'06)
Noninterference in the Presence of Non-Opaque Pointers
Venice, Italy
July 05-July 07
ISBN: 0-7695-2615-2
Daniel Hedin, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
David Sands, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
A common theoretical assumption in the study of information flow security in Java-like languages is that pointers are opaque - i.e., that the only properties that can be observed of pointers are the objects to which they point, and (at most) their equality. These assumptions often fail in practice. For example, various important operations in Java?s standard API, such as hashcodes or serialization, might break pointer opacity. As a result, information-flow static analyses which assume pointer opacity risk being unsound in practice, since the pointer representation provides an unchecked implicit leak. We investigate information flow in the presence of non-opaque pointers for an imperative language with records, pointer instructions and exceptions, and develop an information flow aware type system which guarantees noninterference.
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Daniel Hedin, David Sands, "Noninterference in the Presence of Non-Opaque Pointers," csfw, pp.217-229, 19th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop (CSFW'06), 2006
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