Fault-tolerant Non-interference
Paper i proceeding, 2014

This paper is about ensuring security in unreliable systems. We study systems which are subject to transient faults – soft errors that cause stored values to be corrupted. The classic problem of fault tolerance is to modify a system so that it works despite a limited number of faults. We introduce a novel variant of this problem. Instead of demanding that the system works despite faults, we simply require that it remains secure: wrong answers may be given but secrets will not be revealed. We develop a software-based technique to achieve this fault tolerant non-interference property. The method is defined on a simple assembly language, and guarantees security for any assembly program provided as input. The security property is defined on top of a formal model that encompasses both the fault-prone machine and the faulty environment. A precise characterization of the class of programs for which the method guarantees transparency is provided.

Non-interference

transient faults

security

Författare

Filippo Del Tedesco

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Programvaruteknik

Alejandro Russo

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Programvaruteknik

David Sands

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Programvaruteknik

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 8364 LNCS 60-76
9783319048963 (ISBN)

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Ämneskategorier

Data- och informationsvetenskap

Datavetenskap (datalogi)

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-04897-0_5

ISBN

9783319048963

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