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Static Information Flow Control Made Simpler

10/24/2022
by   Hemant Gouni, et al.
University of Minnesota
Carnegie Mellon University
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Static information flow control (IFC) systems provide the ability to restrict data flows within a program, enabling vulnerable functionality or confidential data to be statically isolated from unsecured data or program logic. Despite the wide applicability of IFC as a mechanism for guaranteeing confidentiality and integrity – the fundamental properties on which computer security relies – existing IFC systems have seen little use, requiring users to reason about complicated mechanisms such as lattices of security labels and dual notions of confidentiality and integrity within these lattices. We propose a system that diverges significantly from previous work on information flow control, opting to reason directly about the data that programmers already work with. In doing so, we naturally and seamlessly combine the clasically separate notions of confidentiality and integrity into one unified framework, further simplifying reasoning. We motivate and showcase our work through two case studies on TLS private key management: one for Rocket, a popular Rust web framework, and another for Conduit, a server implementation for the Matrix messaging service written in Rust.

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