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Modular Enforcement of Information Flow Policies in Data Structures
"... Abstract—Standard implementations of common data structures such as hash tables can leak information, e.g. the operation history, to attackers with later access to a machine’s memory. This leakage is particularly damaging whenever the history of operations performed on a data structure must remain s ..."
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Abstract—Standard implementations of common data structures such as hash tables can leak information, e.g. the operation history, to attackers with later access to a machine’s memory. This leakage is particularly damaging whenever the history of operations performed on a data structure must remain secret, such as in voting machines. We show how unique representation—the requirement that a data structure have canonical machine representations—can be used to perform modular verification of information flow policies in programs that compose data structures with their clients. We present a compositional verification system based on Relational Hoare Type Theory (RHTT) that uses unique representation to enforce end-to-end security guarantees such as noninterference for such programs. We validate our system and technique with examples drawn from arrays, multisets, hash tables, and a medical database application. The system, theorems, and examples have all been verified in Coq. I.

