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A Calculus for Secure Mobility

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Advances in Computing Science – ASIAN 2003. Progamming Languages and Distributed Computation Programming Languages and Distributed Computation (ASIAN 2003)

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In this paper, we introduce the crypto-loc calculus, a calculus for modelling secure mobile computations that combine the concepts of locations, cryptography, and code mobility. All these concepts exist in mobile systems, for example, Java applets run within sandboxes or downloaded under an SSL connection. We use observational equivalence of processes as a powerful means of defining security properties, and characterize observational equivalence in terms of a labelled bisimilarity relation, which makes its proof much easier.

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  1. CNRS, Département d’Informatique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik,  

    Bruno Blanchet

  2. School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University,  

    Benjamin Aziz

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    Vijay A. Saraswat

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Blanchet, B., Aziz, B. (2003). A Calculus for Secure Mobility. In: Saraswat, V.A. (eds) Advances in Computing Science – ASIAN 2003. Progamming Languages and Distributed Computation Programming Languages and Distributed Computation. ASIAN 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2896. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-40965-6_13

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