Control Flow Analysis of Mobile Ambients with Security Boundaries

Chiara Braghin, Agostino Cortesi, Riccardo Focardi · 2002

A multilevel security policy is considered in the scenario of mobile systems, and modeled within “pure” Mobile Ambients calculus, in which no communication channels are present and the only possible actions are represented by the moves performed by mobile processes. The information flow property of interest is defined in terms of the possibility for a confidential ambient/data to move outside a security boundary. In a previous paper, we gave a very simple syntactic property that is sufficient to imply the absence of unwanted information flows. In this paper, a control flow analysis is defined, as a refinement of the Hansen-Jensen-Nielsons’s CFA, that allows to capture boundary crossings with better accuracy.

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