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Information Hiding in Probabilistic Concurrent Systems (journal version)
Miguel E. Andrés 1Catuscia Palamidessi
1Ana Sokolova 2Peter Van Rossum 3
Journal of Theoretical Computer Science 412, 28 (2011) 3072-3089
Abstract: Information hiding is a general concept which refers to the goal of preventing an adversary to infer secret information from the observables. Anonymity and Information Flow are examples of this notion. We study the problem of information hiding in systems characterized by the coexistence of randomization and concurrency. It is well known that the presence of nondeterminism, due to the possible interleavings and interactions of the parallel components, can cause unintended information leaks. The most established approach to solve this problem is to fix the strategy of the scheduler beforehand. In this work, we propose a milder restriction on the schedulers, and we define the notion of strong (probabilistic) information hiding under various notions of observables. Furthermore, we propose a method, based on the notion of automorphism, to verify that a system satisfies the property of strong information hiding, namely strong anonymity or non-interference, depending on the context. Through the paper, we use the canonical example of the Dining Cryptographers to illustrate our ideas and techniques.
- 1: COMETE (INRIA Saclay - Ile de France)
- INRIA – Polytechnique - X – CNRS : UMR7161
- 2: Department of Computer Sciences
- University of Salzburg – Universität Salzburg
- 3: Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (ICIS)
- Radboud university of Nijmegen
- Domain : Computer Science/Cryptography and Security
Computer Science/Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
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- From: Catuscia Palamidessi
- Submitted on: Thursday, 19 May 2011 08:55:28
- Updated on: Thursday, 29 December 2011 23:36:13






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