Parametric timed model checking for guaranteeing timed opacity

• Main Authors: ANDRÉ, Étienne, SUN, Jun
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Opacity; Timed automata; IMITATOR; Parameter synthesis; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4966; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5969/viewcontent/André_Sun2019_Chapter_ParametricTimedModelCheckingFo.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Information leakage can have dramatic consequences on systems security. Among harmful information leaks, the timing information leakage is the ability for an attacker to deduce internal information depending on the system execution time. We address the following problem: given a timed system, synthesize the execution times for which one cannot deduce whether the system performed some secret behavior. We solve this problem in the setting of timed automata (TAs). We first provide a general solution, and then extend the problem to parametric TAs, by synthesizing internal timings making the TA secure. We study decidability, devise algorithms, and show that our method can also apply to program analysis.