Policies and Proofs for Code Auditing

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  • Nathan Whitehead
  • Jordan Johnson
  • Martín Abadi
چکیده

Both proofs and trust relations play a role in security decisions, in particular in determining whether to execute a piece of code. We have developed a language, called BCIC, for policies that combine proofs and trusted assertions about code. In this paper, using BCIC, we suggest an approach to code auditing that bases auditing decisions on logical policies and tools.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007