Title :
Reactive non-interference for a browser model
Author :
Bielova, Nataliia ; Devriese, Dominique ; Massacci, Fabio ; Piessens, Frank
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy
Abstract :
We investigate non-interference (secure information flow) policies for web browsers, replacing or complementing the Same Origin Policy. First, we adapt a recently proposed dynamic information flow enforcement mechanism to support asynchronous I/O. We prove detailed security and precision results for this enforcement mechanism, and implement it for the Featherweight Firefox browser model. Second, we investigate three useful web browser security policies that can be enforced by our mechanism, and demonstrate their value and limitations.
Keywords :
online front-ends; security of data; Featherweight Firefox browser model; Web browser security policy model; dynamic information flow enforcement mechanism; information flow security; reactive noninterference policy; same origin policy; Browsers; Fires; HTML; Load modeling; Observers; Security; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Network and System Security (NSS), 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Milan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0458-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICNSS.2011.6059965