Ruhr-Uni-Bochum

Dynamic IFC Theorems for Free!

2021

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Autor*innen

Cătălin Hrițcu Jean-Philippe Bernardy Maximilian Algehed

Research Hub

Research Hub C: Sichere Systeme

Research Challenges

RC 7: Building Secure Systems

Abstract

We show that noninterference and transparency, the key soundness theorems for dynamic IFC libraries, can be obtained "for free", as direct consequences of the more general parametricity theorem of type abstraction. This allows us to give very short soundness proofs for dynamic IFC libraries such as faceted values and LIO. Our proofs stay short even when fully mechanized for Agda implementations of the libraries in terms of type abstraction.

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Software Security