Encoding Information Flow in Haskell

This paper presents an embedded security sublanguage for enforcing information-flow policies in the standard Haskell programming language. The sublanguage provides useful information-flow control mechanisms including dynamic security lattices, run-time code privileges and declassification, without modifying the base language. This design avoids the redundant work of producing new languages, lowers the threshold for adopting security-typed languages, and also provides great flexibility and modularity for using security-policy frameworks. The embedded security sublanguage is designed using a standard combinator interface called arrows. Computations constructed in the sublanguage have static and explicit control-flow components, making it possible to implement information-flow control using static-analysis techniques at run time, while providing strong security guarantees. This paper presents a concrete Haskell implementation and an example application demonstrating the proposed te...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CSFW
• Authors: Peng Li, Steve Zdancewic
• Keywords: CSFW 2006, Dynamic Security Lattices, Embedded Security Sublanguage, Information-flow Control, Security Privacy