Secrecy and group creation

We add an operation of group creation to the typed π-calculus, where a group is a type for channels. Creation of fresh groups has the effect of statically preventing certain communications, and can block the accidental or malicious leakage of secrets. Intuitively, no channel belonging to a fresh group can be received by processes outside the initial scope of the group, even if those processes are untyped. We formalize this intuition by adapting a notion of secrecy introduced by Abadi, and proving a preservation of secrecy property.

Authors

• Luca Cardelli
• Giorgio Ghelli
• Andrew D. Gordon

Keywords

• π-Calculus
• Secrecy
• Security types