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Towards Quantitative Analysis of Opacity

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Jeremy Bryans, Professor Maciej KoutnyORCiD, Dr Chunyan Mu

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Abstract

Opacity is a general approach for describing and unifying security properties expressed as predicates. A predicate is opaque if an observer of the system is unable to determine the satisfaction of the predicate in a given run of the system. The meaning of opacity is straightforward when considering the standard (qualitative) operational semantics, but there are a number of possible interpretations in a context where quantitative information about system evolutions is available. We propose four variants of quantitative opacity defined for probabilistic labelled transition systems, with each variant capturing a different aspect of quantifying the opacity of a predicate. Moreover, we present results showing how these four properties can be checked or approximated for specific classes of probabilistic labelled transition systems, observation functions, and system predicates.


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Author(s): Bryans JW, Koutny M, Mu C

Editor(s): Catuscia Palamidessi and Mark Dermot Ryan

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Published

Conference Name: Trustworthy Global Computing - 7th International Symposium, TGC 2012

Year of Conference: 2013

Pages: 145-163

ISSN: 9783642411564 (Print)

Publisher: Springer

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41157-1_10

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41157-1_10

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

ISBN: 9783642411571


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