Analysing Flow Security Properties in Virtualised Computing Systems

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Abstract

This paper studies the problem of reasoning about flow security properties in virtualised computing networks with mobility from perspective of formal language. We propose a distributed process algebra CSP_{4v} with security labelled processes for the purpose of formal modelling of virtualised computing systems. Specifically, information leakage can come from observations on process executions, communications and from cache side channels in the virtualised environment. We describe a cache flow policy to identify such flows. A type system of the language is presented to enforce the flow policy and control the leakage introduced by observing behaviours of communicating processes and behaviours of virtual machine (VM) instances during accessing shared memory cache.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherArXiv
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Apr 2020

Keywords

  • cs.CR
  • cs.PL

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