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We present Labeled Input Output in F* (LIO*), a verified framework that enforces information flow control (IFC) policies developed in F* and automatically extracted to C. Inspired by LIO, we encapsulated IFC policies into effects, but using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Jean-Joseph Marty , Lucas Franceschino , Jean-Pierre Talpin , Niki Vazou

This work's main goal is to understand if Information Flow Control (IFC), a security technique used for discovering leaks in software, could be used to indicate the presence of dynamic semantic conflicts between developers contributions in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Roberto Souto Maior de Barros Filho , Paulo Borba

Computing systems, including real-time embedded systems, are becoming increasingly connected to allow for more advanced and safer operation. Such embedded systems are resource-constrained, such as lower processing capabilities, as compared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Tanmaya Mishra , Thidapat Chantem , Ryan Gerdes

Languages with gradual information-flow control combine static and dynamic techniques to prevent security leaks. Gradual languages should satisfy the gradual guarantee: programs that only differ in the precision of their type annotations…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Tianyu Chen , Jeremy G. Siek

Language-based information flow control (IFC) tracks dependencies within a program using sensitivity labels and prohibits public outputs from depending on secret inputs. In particular, literature has proposed several type systems for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Vineet Rajani , Deepak Garg

Information-flow interfaces is a formalism recently proposed for specifying, composing, and refining system-wide security requirements. In this work, we show how the widely used concept of security lattices provides a natural semantic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Ezio Bartocci , Thomas A. Henzinger , Dejan Nickovic , Ana Oliveira da Costa

Safely integrating third-party code in applications while protecting the confidentiality of information is a long-standing problem. Pure functional programming languages, like Haskell, make it possible to enforce lightweight…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Simon Gregersen , Søren Eller Thomsen , Aslan Askarov

SAFE is a clean-slate design for a highly secure computer system, with pervasive mechanisms for tracking and limiting information flows. At the lowest level, the SAFE hardware supports fine-grained programmable tags, with efficient and…

Information flow security is classically formulated in terms of the absence of illegal information flows, with respect to a security setting consisting of a single flow policy that specifies what information flows should be permitted in the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Ana Almeida Matos , Jan Cederquist

The wide adoption of IoT gadgets and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) makes embedded devices increasingly important. While some of these devices perform mission-critical tasks, they are usually implemented using Micro-Controller Units (MCUs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Antonio Joia Neto , Ivan de Oliveira Nunes

Language-based information flow control (IFC) enables reasoning about and enforcing security policies in decentralized applications. While information flow properties are relatively extensional and compositional, designing expressive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Silei Ren , Coşku Acay , Andrew C. Myers

Embedded, smart, and IoT devices are increasingly popular in numerous everyday settings. Since lower-end devices have the most strict cost constraints, they tend to have few, if any, security features. This makes them attractive targets for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Sashidhar Jakkamsetti , Youngil Kim , Andrew Searles , Gene Tsudik

Information flow analysis prevents secret or untrusted data from flowing into public or trusted sinks. Existing mechanisms cover a wide array of options, ranging from lightweight taint analysis to heavyweight information flow control that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Cristian-Alexandru Staicu , Daniel Schoepe , Musard Balliu , Michael Pradel , Andrei Sabelfeld

Multi-agent ad hoc systems are dynamic collaborative systems in which multiple autonomous agents must cooperate with both known and unknown teammates in open environments, without relying on pre-coordinated strategies. These systems operate…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yanqing Fu , Chenrun Wang , Chao Huang , Zhuping Wang

A model of cloud services is emerging whereby a few trusted providers manage the underlying hardware and communications whereas many companies build on this infrastructure to offer higher level, cloud-hosted PaaS services and/or SaaS…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Thomas F. J. -M. Pasquier , Jatinder Singh , David Eyers , Jean Bacon

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled powerful autonomous agents capable of complex reasoning and multi-modal tool use. Despite their growing capabilities, today's agent frameworks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Peiran Li , Xinkai Zou , Zhuohang Wu , Ruifeng Li , Shuo Xing , Hanwen Zheng , Zhikai Hu , Yuping Wang , Haoxi Li , Qin Yuan , Yingmo Zhang , Zhengzhong Tu

A security policy specifies a security property as the maximal information flow. A distributed system composed of interacting processes implicitly defines an intransitive security policy by repudiating direct information flow between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Jean Quilbeuf , Georgeta Igna , Denis Bytschkow , Harald Ruess

An information owner, possessing diverse data sources, might want to offer information services based on these sources to cooperation partners and to this end interact with these partners by receiving and sending messages, which the owner…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Joachim Biskup , Cornelia Tadros , Jaouad Zarouali

Modern RISC-V platforms control and monitor security-critical systems such as industrial controllers and autonomous vehicles. While these platforms feature a Root-of-Trust (RoT) to store authentication secrets and enable secure boot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Emanuele Parisi , Alberto Musa , Simone Manoni , Maicol Ciani , Davide Rossi , Francesco Barchi , Andrea Bartolini , Andrea Acquaviva

Security of information flow is commonly understood as preventing any information leakage, regardless of how grave or harmless consequences the leakage can have. In this work, we suggest that information security is not a goal in itself,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Wojciech Jamroga , Masoud Tabatabaei