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An Operational Semantics of the Java Card Firewall

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Smart Card Programming and Security (E-smart 2001)

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This paper presents an operational semantics for a subset of Java Card bytecode, focussing on aspects of the Java Card firewall, method invocation, field access, variable access, shareable objects and contexts. The goal is to provide a precise description of the Java Card firewall using standard tools from operational semantics. Such a description is necessary for formally arguing the correctness of tools for validating the security of Java Card applications.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    Marc Éluard & Thomas Jensen

  2. Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ewen Denne

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  1. INRIA Sophia Antipolis, BP 93, 06902, Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France

    Isabelle Attali

  2. Campus de Beaulieu, IRISA/CNRS, 35042, Rennes, France

    Thomas Jensen

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Éluard, M., Jensen, T., Denne, E. (2001). An Operational Semantics of the Java Card Firewall. In: Attali, I., Jensen, T. (eds) Smart Card Programming and Security. E-smart 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2140. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45418-7_9

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