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One of the concerns in the use of computer systems is to avoid the leakage of confidential information through public outputs. Ideally we would like systems to be completely secure, but in practice this goal is often impossible to achieve. Therefore it is important to have a way to quantify the amount of leakage, so to be able to assess that a system is better than another, although they may both be insecure.
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Palamidessi, C. (2010). Compositionality of Secure Information Flow. In: Bolduc, C., Desharnais, J., Ktari, B. (eds) Mathematics of Program Construction. MPC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6120. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13321-3_2
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