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Invited Talk
How to Develop an Intuition for Risk... and Other Invisible Phenomena (Invited Talk)

Authors: Natasha Fernandes, Annabelle McIver, and Carroll Morgan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 216, 30th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2022)


Abstract
The study of quantitative risk in security systems is often based around complex and subtle mathematical ideas involving probabilities. The notations for these ideas can pose a communication barrier between collaborating researchers even when those researchers are working within a similar framework. This paper describes the use of geometrical representation and reasoning as a way to share ideas using the minimum of notation so as to build intuition about what kinds of properties might or might not be true. We describe a faithful geometrical setting for the channel model of quantitative information flow (QIF) and demonstrate how it can facilitate "proofs without words" for problems in the QIF setting.

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Natasha Fernandes, Annabelle McIver, and Carroll Morgan. How to Develop an Intuition for Risk... and Other Invisible Phenomena (Invited Talk). In 30th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 216, pp. 2:1-2:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{fernandes_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2022.2,
  author =	{Fernandes, Natasha and McIver, Annabelle and Morgan, Carroll},
  title =	{{How to Develop an Intuition for Risk... and Other Invisible Phenomena}},
  booktitle =	{30th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2022)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-218-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{216},
  editor =	{Manea, Florin and Simpson, Alex},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2022.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-157227},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2022.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Geometry, Quantitative Information Flow, Proof, Explainability, Privacy}
}
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Verifying That a Compiler Preserves Concurrent Value-Dependent Information-Flow Security

Authors: Robert Sison and Toby Murray

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 141, 10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019)


Abstract
It is common to prove by reasoning over source code that programs do not leak sensitive data. But doing so leaves a gap between reasoning and reality that can only be filled by accounting for the behaviour of the compiler. This task is complicated when programs enforce value-dependent information-flow security properties (in which classification of locations can vary depending on values in other locations) and complicated further when programs exploit shared-variable concurrency. Prior work has formally defined a notion of concurrency-aware refinement for preserving value-dependent security properties. However, that notion is considerably more complex than standard refinement definitions typically applied in the verification of semantics preservation by compilers. To date it remains unclear whether it can be applied to a realistic compiler, because there exist no general decomposition principles for separating it into smaller, more familiar, proof obligations. In this work, we provide such a decomposition principle, which we show can almost halve the complexity of proving secure refinement. Further, we demonstrate its applicability to secure compilation, by proving in Isabelle/HOL the preservation of value-dependent security by a proof-of-concept compiler from an imperative While language to a generic RISC-style assembly language, for programs with shared-memory concurrency mediated by locking primitives. Finally, we execute our compiler in Isabelle on a While language model of the Cross Domain Desktop Compositor, demonstrating to our knowledge the first use of a compiler verification result to carry an information-flow security property down to the assembly-level model of a non-trivial concurrent program.

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Robert Sison and Toby Murray. Verifying That a Compiler Preserves Concurrent Value-Dependent Information-Flow Security. In 10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 141, pp. 27:1-27:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{sison_et_al:LIPIcs.ITP.2019.27,
  author =	{Sison, Robert and Murray, Toby},
  title =	{{Verifying That a Compiler Preserves Concurrent Value-Dependent Information-Flow Security}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019)},
  pages =	{27:1--27:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-122-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{141},
  editor =	{Harrison, John and O'Leary, John and Tolmach, Andrew},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2019.27},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-110829},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2019.27},
  annote =	{Keywords: Secure compilation, Information flow security, Concurrency, Verification}
}
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