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Language Mechanisms for Controlling and Mitigating Timing Channels

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We propose a new language-based approach to mitigating timing channels. In this language, well-typed programs provably leak only a bounded amount of information over time through external timing channels. By incorporating mechanisms for predictive mitigation of timing channels, this approach also permits a more expressive programming model. Timing channels arising from interaction with underlying hardware features such as instruction caches are controlled. Assumptions about the underlying hardware are explicitly formalized, supporting the design of hardware that efficiently controls timing channels. One such hardware design is modeled and used to show that timing channels can be controlled in some simple programs of real-world significance.

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This work has been supported by a grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR N000140910652), by two grants from the NSF: 0424422 (the TRUST center), and 0964409, and by MURI grant FA9550-12-1-0400, administered by the US Air Force. This research is also sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory.

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2012-03-22

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timing channels; mitigation; information flow

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