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Causality and Accountability

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Formal Aspects in Security and Trust (FAST 2008)

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Noninterference is a standard correctness condition for information flow control, but achieving it may sometimes be too expensive to be practical, particularly for distributed applications. A framework is introduced for specifying what forms of information flow control should be secured. Accountable noninterference requires that there be no information leaks via accountable information flows. An example application is in delineating sequential and distributed information flows, allowing different enforcement mechanisms for each. As such, the framework allows the specification of mechanism, dual to policy, in information flow control.

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    Dominic Duggan & Ye Wu

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Largo Bruno, Pontecorvo, 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy

    Pierpaolo Degano

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    Joshua Guttman

  3. Istituto di Informatica e Telematica - IIT Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, C.N.R., Pisa Research Area, Via. G. Moruzzi 1, 56125, Pisa, Italy

    Fabio Martinelli

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Duggan, D., Wu, Y. (2009). Causality and Accountability. In: Degano, P., Guttman, J., Martinelli, F. (eds) Formal Aspects in Security and Trust. FAST 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5491. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01465-9_6

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