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Web applications written in JavaScript are regularly used for dealing with sensitive or personal data. Consequently, reasoning about their security properties has become an important problem, which is made very difficult by the highly…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-02-14 Martin Lester , Luke Ong , Max Schaefer

In security-critical software applications, confidential information must be prevented from leaking to unauthorized sinks. Static analysis techniques are widespread to enforce a secure information flow by checking a program after…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Tobias Runge , Alexander Kittelmann , Marco Servetto , Alex Potanin , Ina Schaefer

Software testing is the most commonly used technique in the industry to certify the correctness of software systems. This includes security properties like access control and data confidentiality. However, information flow control and the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Eduardo Geraldo , João Costa Seco

Performance interference can occur when various services are executed over the same physical infrastructure in a cloud system. This can lead to performance degradation compared to the execution of services in isolation. This work proposes a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-08 VÍctor Medel , Unai Arronategui , Omer Rana , JosÉ Ángel BaÑares , Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz

There are many familiar situations in which a manager seeks to design a system in which users share a resource, but outcomes depend on the information held and actions taken by users. If communication is possible, the manager can ask users…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-18 Luca Canzian , Yuanzhang Xiao , William Zame , Michele Zorzi , Mihaela van der Schaar

The rise of serverless computing provides an opportunity to rethink cloud security. We present an approach for securing serverless systems using a novel form of dynamic information flow control (IFC). We show that in serverless…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Kalev Alpernas , Cormac Flanagan , Sadjad Fouladi , Leonid Ryzhyk , Mooly Sagiv , Thomas Schmitz , Keith Winstein

Consistency is one of the keys to maintainable source code and hence a successful software project. We propose a novel method of extracting the intent of programmers from source code of a large project (~300kLOC) and checking the semantic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Yusuke Shinyama , Yoshitaka Arahori , Katsuhiko Gondow

The enormous amount of code required to design modern hardware implementations often leads to critical vulnerabilities being overlooked. Especially vulnerabilities that compromise the confidentiality of sensitive data, such as cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Lennart M. Reimann , Luca Hanel , Dominik Sisejkovic , Farhad Merchant , Rainer Leupers

Rising device use and third-party IP integration in semiconductors raise security concerns. Unauthorized access, fault injection, and privacy invasion are potential threats from untrusted actors. Different security techniques have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Geraldine Shirley Nicholas , Dhruvakumar Vikas Aklekar , Bhavin Thakar , Fareena Saqib

We study interference channels (IFC) where interaction among sources and destinations is enabled, e.g., both sources and destinations can talk to each other using full-duplex radios. The interaction can come in two ways: 1) {\em In-band…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Quan Geng , Sreeram Kannan , Pramod Viswanath

We introduce a tool that supports continuous flow analysis in order to detect security problems as the user edits. The tool uses abstract interpretation over both byte codes and abstract syntax trees to trace the flow of both type…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Steven P. Reiss

Flow-sensitive analysis for information-flow control (IFC) allows data structures to have mutable security labels, i.e., labels that can change over the course of the computation. This feature is often used to boost the permissiveness of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Pablo Buiras , Deian Stefan , Alejandro Russo

We present an approach for dynamic information flow control across the application and database. Our approach reduces the amount of policy code required, yields formal guarantees across the application and database, works with existing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Jean Yang , Travis Hance , Thomas H. Austin , Armando Solar-Lezama , Cormac Flanagan , Stephen Chong

In the inference attacks studied in Quantitative Information Flow (QIF), the attacker typically tries to interfere with the system in the attempt to increase its leakage of secret information. The defender, on the other hand, typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Mário S. Alvim , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Yusuke Kawamoto , Catuscia Palamidessi

Quantitative information flow (QIF) is concerned with assessing the leakage of information in computational systems. In QIF there are two main perspectives for the quantification of leakage. On one hand, the static perspective considers all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Luigi D. C. Soares , Mário S. Alvim , Natasha Fernandes

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

This work presents insights gained by investigating the relationship between algorithmic fairness and the concept of secure information flow. The problem of enforcing secure information flow is well-studied in the context of information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Samuel Teuber , Bernhard Beckert

Information flow analysis has largely ignored the setting where the analyst has neither control over nor a complete model of the analyzed system. We formalize such limited information flow analyses and study an instance of it: detecting the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Michael Carl Tschantz , Amit Datta , Anupam Datta , Jeannette M. Wing

Static analysis approximates the results of a program by examining only its syntax. For example, control-flow analysis (CFA) determines which syntactic lambdas (for functional languages) or (for object-oriented) methods may be invoked at…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Davis Ross Silverman , Yihao Sun , Kristopher Micinski , Thomas Gilray

Since decade understanding of programs has become a compulsory task for the students as well as for others who are involved in the process of developing software and providing solutions to open problems. In that aspect showing the problem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Safeeullah Soomro , Zainab Alansari , Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum