Managing Policy Updates in Security-Typed Languages
dc.contributor.author | Swamy, N. | |
dc.contributor.author | Hicks, M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Tse, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Zdancewic, S. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-07T18:08:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-07T18:08:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006-04-06 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper presents RX, a new security-typed programming language with features intended to make the management of information-flow policies more practical. Security labels in RX, in contrast to prior approaches, are defined in terms of owned roles, as found in the RT role-based trust-management framework. Role-based security policies allow flexible delegation, and our language RX provides constructs through which programs can robustly update policies and react to policy updates dynamically. Our dynamic semantics use statically verified transactions to eliminate illegal information flows across updates, which we call transitive flows. Because policy updates can be observed through dynamic queries, policy updates can potentially reveal sensitive information. As such, RX considers policy statements themselves to be potentially confidential information and subject to information-flow metapolicies. | en |
dc.format.extent | 443286 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3681 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | UM Computer Science Department | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | CS-TR-4793 | en |
dc.title | Managing Policy Updates in Security-Typed Languages | en |
dc.type | Technical Report | en |
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