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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.11
Regrading Policies for Flexible Information Flow Control in Session-Typed Concurrency

Authors: Farzaneh Derakhshan, Stephanie Balzer, and Yue Yao

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 313, 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)

Abstract
Noninterference guarantees that an attacker cannot infer secrets by interacting with a program. Information flow control (IFC) type systems assert noninterference by tracking the level of information learned (pc) and disallowing communication to entities of lesser or unrelated level than the pc. Control flow constructs such as loops are at odds with this pattern because they necessitate downgrading the pc upon recursion to be practical. In a concurrent setting, however, downgrading is not generally safe. This paper utilizes session types to track the flow of information and contributes an IFC type system for message-passing concurrent processes that allows downgrading the pc upon recursion. To make downgrading safe, the paper introduces regrading policies. Regrading policies are expressed in terms of integrity labels, which are also key to safe composition of entities with different regrading policies. The paper develops the type system and proves progress-sensitive noninterference for well-typed processes, ruling out timing attacks that exploit the relative order of messages. The type system has been implemented in a type checker, which supports security-polymorphic processes.
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Farzaneh Derakhshan, Stephanie Balzer, and Yue Yao. Regrading Policies for Flexible Information Flow Control in Session-Typed Concurrency. In 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 313, pp. 11:1-11:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{derakhshan_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.11,
  author =	{Derakhshan, Farzaneh and Balzer, Stephanie and Yao, Yue},
  title =	{{Regrading Policies for Flexible Information Flow Control in Session-Typed Concurrency}},
  booktitle =	{38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:29},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-341-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{313},
  editor =	{Aldrich, Jonathan and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208602},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Regrading policies, session types, progress-sensitive noninterference}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.40
Information Flow Control in Cyclic Process Networks

Authors: Bas van den Heuvel, Farzaneh Derakhshan, and Stephanie Balzer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 313, 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)

Abstract
Protection of confidential data is an important security consideration of today’s applications. Of particular concern is to guard against unintentional leakage to a (malicious) observer, who may interact with the program and draw inference from made observations. Information flow control (IFC) type systems address this concern by statically ruling out such leakage. This paper contributes an IFC type system for message-passing concurrent programs, the computational model of choice for many of today’s applications such as cloud computing and IoT applications. Such applications typically either implicitly or explicitly codify protocols according to which message exchange must happen, and to statically ensure protocol safety, behavioral type systems such as session types can be used. This paper marries IFC with session typing and contributes over prior work in the following regards: (1) support of realistic cyclic process networks as opposed to the restriction to tree-shaped networks, (2) more permissive, yet entirely secure, IFC control, exploiting cyclic process networks, and (3) considering deadlocks as another form of side channel, and asserting deadlock-sensitive noninterference (DSNI) for well-typed programs. To prove DSNI, the paper develops a novel logical relation that accounts for cyclic process networks. The logical relation is rooted in linear logic, but drops the tree-topology restriction imposed by prior work.
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Bas van den Heuvel, Farzaneh Derakhshan, and Stephanie Balzer. Information Flow Control in Cyclic Process Networks. In 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 313, pp. 40:1-40:30, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{vandenheuvel_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.40,
  author =	{van den Heuvel, Bas and Derakhshan, Farzaneh and Balzer, Stephanie},
  title =	{{Information Flow Control in Cyclic Process Networks}},
  booktitle =	{38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)},
  pages =	{40:1--40:30},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-341-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{313},
  editor =	{Aldrich, Jonathan and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.40},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208891},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.40},
  annote =	{Keywords: Cyclic process networks, linear session types, logical relations, deadlock-sensitive noninterference}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.10.2.4
Regrading Policies for Flexible Information Flow Control in Session-Typed Concurrency (Artifact)

Authors: Farzaneh Derakhshan, Stephanie Balzer, and Yue Yao

Published in: DARTS, Volume 10, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)

Abstract
This artifact is a Docker image containing the snapshot of the source code, a built command-line binary, and an interactive demonstration of the type-checker developed for IFC language of the main paper. This article discusses its scope, contents and methods of use.
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Farzaneh Derakhshan, Stephanie Balzer, and Yue Yao. Regrading Policies for Flexible Information Flow Control in Session-Typed Concurrency (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 10, Issue 2, pp. 4:1-4:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@Article{derakhshan_et_al:DARTS.10.2.4,
  author =	{Derakhshan, Farzaneh and Balzer, Stephanie and Yao, Yue},
  title =	{{Regrading Policies for Flexible Information Flow Control in Session-Typed Concurrency (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{4:1--4:3},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-342-3},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{10},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Derakhshan, Farzaneh and Balzer, Stephanie and Yao, Yue},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.10.2.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-209020},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.10.2.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Regrading policies, session types, progress-sensitive noninterference}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagRep.14.1.108
Next Generation Protocols for Heterogeneous Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 24051)

Authors: Stephanie Balzer, Marco Carbone, Roland Kuhn, and Peter Thiemann

Published in: Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 14, Issue 1 (2024)

Abstract
The emergence of new computing systems, like cloud computing, blockchains, and Internet of Things (IoT), replaces the traditional monolithic software hardware stack with a distributed heterogeneous model. This change poses new demands on the programming languages for developing such systems: compositionality, allowing decomposition of a system into smaller, possibly heterogeneous, parts and composition of the individually verified parts into a verified whole, security, asserting end-to-end integrity and confidentiality, quantitative reasoning methods, accounting for timing and probabilistic events, and, as a cross-cutting concern, certification of asserted properties in terms of independently verifiable, machine-checked proofs. Characteristics of this emerging computation model are distribution of the participating entities and message passing as the primary means of communication. Message passing is also the communication model underlying behavioral types and programming languages, making them uniquely fitted for this new application domain. Behavioral types explicitly capture the protocols of message exchange and have a strong theoretical foundation. Recent applications of behavioral types include smart contract languages, information flow control, and machine-checked proofs of safety properties. Although these early explorations are promising, the current state of the art of behavioral types and programming languages lacks a comprehensive account of the above-mentioned demands. This Dagstuhl Seminar aims to gather experts from academia and industry to discuss the use of programming languages tailored to tackle the challenges posed by today’s emerging distributed and heterogeneous computing platforms, e.g., by making use of behavioral types. It will focus on static and possibly dynamic mechanisms to support compositionality, security, quantitative reasoning, and certification.
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Stephanie Balzer, Marco Carbone, Roland Kuhn, and Peter Thiemann. Next Generation Protocols for Heterogeneous Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 24051). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 14, Issue 1, pp. 108-129, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@Article{balzer_et_al:DagRep.14.1.108,
  author =	{Balzer, Stephanie and Carbone, Marco and Kuhn, Roland and Thiemann, Peter},
  title =	{{Next Generation Protocols for Heterogeneous Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 24051)}},
  pages =	{108--129},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Reports},
  ISSN =	{2192-5283},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{14},
  number =	{1},
  editor =	{Balzer, Stephanie and Carbone, Marco and Kuhn, Roland and Thiemann, Peter},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.14.1.108},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-204930},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagRep.14.1.108},
  annote =	{Keywords: behavioural types, concurrency, programming languages, session types}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.8.2.14
Ferrite: A Judgmental Embedding of Session Types in Rust (Artifact)

Authors: Ruo Fei Chen, Stephanie Balzer, and Bernardo Toninho

Published in: DARTS, Volume 8, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022)

Abstract
This artifact provides a VirtualBox image containing the snapshots of source code for Ferrite and Servo at the time the main paper was published.
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Ruo Fei Chen, Stephanie Balzer, and Bernardo Toninho. Ferrite: A Judgmental Embedding of Session Types in Rust (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 14:1-14:2, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@Article{chen_et_al:DARTS.8.2.14,
  author =	{Chen, Ruo Fei and Balzer, Stephanie and Toninho, Bernardo},
  title =	{{Ferrite: A Judgmental Embedding of Session Types in Rust (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{14:1--14:2},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{8},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Chen, Ruo Fei and Balzer, Stephanie and Toninho, Bernardo},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.8.2.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162125},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.8.2.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Session Types, Rust, DSL}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.22
Ferrite: A Judgmental Embedding of Session Types in Rust

Authors: Ruo Fei Chen, Stephanie Balzer, and Bernardo Toninho

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 222, 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022)

Abstract
Session types have proved viable in expressing and verifying the protocols of message-passing systems. While message passing is a dominant concurrency paradigm in practice, real world software is written without session types. A limitation of existing session type libraries in mainstream languages is their restriction to linear session types, precluding application scenarios that demand sharing and thus aliasing of channel references. This paper introduces Ferrite, a shallow embedding of session types in Rust that supports both linear and shared sessions. The formal foundation of Ferrite constitutes the shared session type calculus SILL_𝖲, which Ferrite encodes via a novel judgmental embedding technique. The fulcrum of the embedding is the notion of a typing judgment that allows reasoning about shared and linear resources to type a session. Typing rules are then encoded as functions over judgments, with a valid typing derivation manifesting as a well-typed Rust program. This Rust program generated by Ferrite serves as a certificate, ensuring that the application will proceed according to the protocol defined by the session type. The paper details the features and implementation of Ferrite and includes a case study on implementing Servo’s canvas component in Ferrite.
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Ruo Fei Chen, Stephanie Balzer, and Bernardo Toninho. Ferrite: A Judgmental Embedding of Session Types in Rust. In 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 222, pp. 22:1-22:28, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{chen_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.22,
  author =	{Chen, Ruo Fei and Balzer, Stephanie and Toninho, Bernardo},
  title =	{{Ferrite: A Judgmental Embedding of Session Types in Rust}},
  booktitle =	{36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022)},
  pages =	{22:1--22:28},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-225-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{222},
  editor =	{Ali, Karim and Vitek, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.22},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162501},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.22},
  annote =	{Keywords: Session Types, Rust, DSL}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.30
A Universal Session Type for Untyped Asynchronous Communication

Authors: Stephanie Balzer, Frank Pfenning, and Bernardo Toninho

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 118, 29th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2018)

Abstract
In the simply-typed lambda-calculus we can recover the full range of expressiveness of the untyped lambda-calculus solely by adding a single recursive type U = U -> U. In contrast, in the session-typed pi-calculus, recursion alone is insufficient to recover the untyped pi-calculus, primarily due to linearity: each channel just has two unique endpoints. In this paper, we show that shared channels with a corresponding sharing semantics (based on the language SILL_S developed in prior work) are enough to embed the untyped asynchronous pi-calculus via a universal shared session type U_S. We show that our encoding of the asynchronous pi-calculus satisfies operational correspondence and preserves observable actions (i.e., processes are weakly bisimilar to their encoding). Moreover, we clarify the expressiveness of SILL_S by developing an operationally correct encoding of SILL_S in the asynchronous pi-calculus.
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Stephanie Balzer, Frank Pfenning, and Bernardo Toninho. A Universal Session Type for Untyped Asynchronous Communication. In 29th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 118, pp. 30:1-30:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{balzer_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.30,
  author =	{Balzer, Stephanie and Pfenning, Frank and Toninho, Bernardo},
  title =	{{A Universal Session Type for Untyped Asynchronous Communication}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2018)},
  pages =	{30:1--30:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-087-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{118},
  editor =	{Schewe, Sven and Zhang, Lijun},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.30},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-95681},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.30},
  annote =	{Keywords: Session types, sharing, pi-calculus, bisimulation}
}
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