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Secure Nested Transactions are an adaptation of traditional nested transactions to support the synergy of language-based security and multi-level database security. They have application in security for enterprise applications, where transactional semantics are a critical feature in middleware systems. This article considers correctness in terms of transactional properties for secure nested transactions. Correctness is expressed in terms of a labeled transition system, the TauZero calculus.
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Duggan, D., Wu, Y. (2012). Transactional Correctness for Secure Nested Transactions. In: Bruni, R., Sassone, V. (eds) Trustworthy Global Computing. TGC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7173. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30065-3_11
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