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History-Based Access Control and Secure Information Flow

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History-Based Access Control and Secure Information Flow
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of static checking of programs to ensure that they satisfy confidentiality policies in the presence of dynamic access control in the form of Abadi and Fournet’s historybased access control mechanism. The Java virtual machine’s permissionbased stack inspection mechanism provides dynamic access control and is useful in protecting trusted callees from untrusted callers. In contrast, history-based access control provides a stateful view of permissions: permissions after execution are at most the permissions before execution. This allows protection of both callers and callees. The main contributions of this paper are to provide a semantics for history-based access control and a static analysis for confidentiality that takes history-based access control into account. The static analysis is a type and effects analysis where the chief novelty is the use of security types dependent on permission state. We also show that in contrast to stack insp...
Anindya Banerjee, David A. Naumann
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Type Conference
Year 2004
Where CASSIS
Authors Anindya Banerjee, David A. Naumann
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