학술논문

Information Hiding in Probabilistic Concurrent Systems
Document Type
Conference
Source
2010 Seventh International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST), 2010 Seventh International Conference on the. :17-26 Sep, 2010
Subject
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Probabilistic logic
Cryptography
Automata
Synchronization
Semantics
Noise measurement
Language
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 presence of randomization and concurrency. It is well known that the raising of nondeterminism, due to the possible interleavings and interactions of the parallel components, can cause unintended information leaks. One way 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 no-interference, depending on the context.